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
Francois de La Rochefoucauld quotes about
Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough.
However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
The simplest man with passion will be more persuasive than the most eloquent without.
When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.
To praise great actions is in some sense to share them.
It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young.
There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.
There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.
Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.
Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.
Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.
Most women lament not the death of their lovers so much out of real affection for them, as because they would appear worthy of love.
Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.
We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.