Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillacla ʁɔʃfuˈko]; 15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. It is said that his world-view was clear-eyed and urbane, and that he neither condemned human conduct nor sentimentally celebrated it. Born in Paris on the Rue des Petits Champs, at a time when the royal court was vacillating between aiding the nobility and threatening it, he was considered an exemplar of the accomplished 17th-century...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth15 September 1613
CountryFrance
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.