Zitate von François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Ein bekanntes Zitat von François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld:
Das Vergnügen der Liebe liegt im Lieben. Wir sind viel glücklicher in der Leidenschaft, die wir empfinden, als in jener, die wir hervorrufen.
Informationen über François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Moralist, Aphoristiker, Offizier, mit seinen aphoristischen Texten gilt er als der älteste der französischen Moralisten, Werke: "Memoires"/1662, "Réflexions ou Sentences et maximes morales" (Frankreich, 1613 - 1680).
François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld wäre heute 410 Jahre, 8 Monate, 5 Tage oder 149.997 Tage alt.
Geboren am 15.09.1613 in Paris
Gestorben am 17.03.1680 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau
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Weitere 1.207 Zitate von François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous - our star that of the public.
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Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
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Perseverance merits neither blame nor praise; it is only the duration of our inclinations and sentiments, which we can neither create nor extinguish.
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Philosophy triumphs easily over past and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
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Preserving health by too severe a rule is a wearisome malady.
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Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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Pride which inspires us with so much envy, serves also to moderate it.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Self love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.
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Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
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Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrusts himself.
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Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
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Some people with great virtues are disagreeable, while others with great vices are delightful.
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Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment.
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The accent of a man's native country dwells in his mind and in his heart as well as in his speech.
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The accent of one's birthplace lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one's speech.
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The ambitious deceive themselves when they propose an end to their ambition; for that end, when attained, becomes a means.