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
The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.
Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.
Nothing is so catching as example.
Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.
Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.
Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.
Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.
Love is the smallest part of gallantry.
Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.
Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.
Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.
A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.
Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.