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
Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.
Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.
If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]
A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]
The gallantry of the mind consists in agreeable flattery.
Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.
Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.
Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate; but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.
Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind.
Hatred is stronger than friendship.
Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.
We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.