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
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones.
We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.
Nothing is rarer than real goodness.
There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.
There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.
Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.