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François de La Rochefoucauld

Born

in Paris, France

September 15, 1613

Died

March 17, 1680

Genre

Philosophy, Essayist

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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 noblema ...more

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	Maxims 4.04 avg rating — 3,743 ratings — published 1665 — 570 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Les moralistes : Maximes : Caractères by François de La Rochefoucauld, Jean de La Bruyère, Jacques Truchet (Commentaires) 4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1976	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oeuvres complètes de La Rochefoucauld 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1935 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	লা রোশফুকোর মাক্সিম by François de La Rochefoucauld, Chinmoy Guha (Translator) 4.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoires precedes de l'Apologie de M. le prince de Marcillac 3.21 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1993 — 60 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Максимы / Мысли / Характеры by François de La Rochefoucauld, Франсуа де Ларошфуко, Блез Паскаль 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1974	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sobre la pasión, el amor y los celos. 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Frenchman's Year in Suffolk, 1784 by François de La Rochefoucauld, Norman Scarfe 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Мемуары. Максимы by François de La Rochefoucauld, Франсуа де Ларошфуко 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Мемуары. Максимы и моральные размышления 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld (?)

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: cynical, life, truth

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“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
― Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: love

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“If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: criticism

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