Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), given name Francois A F Rochefoucauld Liancourt, also known as Francoi VI, Prince de Marcillac, was a French writer and moralist who was also author of maxims and memoirs. He was part of the literary movement of classicism.Wisdom & Quotes
From his Maxims- One gives nothing so freely as advice.
- To establish oneself in the world, on has to do all one can to appear established.
- We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
- One is never as fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
- A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring.
- Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.
- The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
- Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with it.
- Love of justice in most men is no more than the fear of suffering injustice.
- If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than friendship.
- There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
- In their first passion, women love their lovers; in all the others, they love love.
- There are some good marriages, but no delightful ones.
- In the misfortune of our best friends, we find something that is not unpleasing.
- Those who have great passions find themselves all their lives both happy and unhappy at being cured of them.
- If we resist our passions, it is due more to their weakness than our own strength.
- In the human heart, there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
- Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
- Vanity is the greatest of all flatterers.
- The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
- Virtue would not go to such lengths if vanity did not keep her company.
- Very often our virtues are only vices in disguise.
- Youth is unending intoxication; it is a fever of the mind.
Richard Lovelace
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