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
When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.
Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.
There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.
Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.
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.
Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.
Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit.
In love deceit nearly always goes further than mistrust.
When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful.