Francois de La Rochefoucauld

(1613–1680) · French Moralist

French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

(1613–1680) · French Moralist

French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs

The mind cannot long play the heart's role.
The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

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