FRANÇOIS
DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
15 Sep 1613 - 17 Mar 1680
French
nobleman and author, best known for his Mémoires
and Maximes, the latter of which expressed "the
pessimism of the disillusioned nobility" of Louis XIV's
court.
La Rochefoucauld was a textbook curmudgeon, very liberal and
democratic in his pessimism, and has given us many biting
epigrams (e.g., "The intellect is always fooled by the
heart.").
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QUOTES
BY FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
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"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire."
[Love]
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