François de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

French author of maxims and memoirs (1613-1680)

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac (September 15 1613 – March 17 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs, as well as an example of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman.

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Alternative Names: François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac • François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld • François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

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How can you expect another to keep a secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

The reason lovers never tire of one another’s company is because they never talk of anything but themselves.

Grace is to the body what reason is to the mind.

He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.

La sagesse est à l’âme ce que la santé est pour le corps.

390. — We give up more easily our interest than our taste.

Il y a des personnes à qui les défauts siéent bien, et d'autres qui sont disgraciées avec leurs bonnes qualités.

Nous essayons de nous faire honneur des défauts que nous ne voulons pas corriger.

451. — No fools so wearisome as those who have some wit. 452. — No

People offer advice, but they do not give at the same time the wisdom to benefit from it.

Nothing prevents us being natural so much as the desire to appear so.

Dans la vieillesse de l'amour comme dans celle de l’âge on vit encore pour les maux, mais on ne vit plus pour les plaisirs.

Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.