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
It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
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.
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.