Francois De La Rochefoucault
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François de la Rochefoucauld
François VI, duc de la Rochefoucauld, prince de Marcillac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa d(ə) la ʁɔʃfuko]; 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 nobleman. Until 1650, he bore the title of Prince de Marcillac.
“Tres clases hay de ignorancia: no saber lo que debiera saberse, saber mal lo que se sabe y saber lo que no debiera saberse.”
Francois De La Rochefoucault
“Absense diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.”
Francois De La Rochefoucault
“In jealousy there is more of self-love than love”
Francois De La Rochefoucault
“We are often more treacherous through weakness than calculation”
Francois De La Rochefoucault