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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  • Francois de La Rochefoucauld

    François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs.

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It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

Tags: Love, Old, Dead
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

Tags: Death, Pain, Old
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

Tags: Mind, Face, Grow
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

Tags: Family, Done, Lives
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

Tags: Weather, Here, Lovely
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

Tags: Women, Selfish, Him
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

Tags: God, Love
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

Tags: Friendship, Men, Social
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

Tags: Minds, Favorite, Agree
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Taste may change, but inclination never.

Tags: Society, Life, Favor
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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