Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

France, Author
September 15, 1613 – March, 17, 1680.

François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac 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.

Humility is the worst form of conceit.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Humility
- Conceit
There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Loves
- Degree
- Forgives
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- People
- Sense
- Agree
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.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Remember
- Person
- Happened
Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Gentleman
- Beast
- Lunatic
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Wisdom
- Cannot
- Profit