Zitate von François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Ein bekanntes Zitat von François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld:
Das Vergnügen bei der Liebe liegt im Lieben und das Glück in der Leidenschaft, die man empfindet, und nicht in der, die man erregt.
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, 4 Tage oder 149.996 Tage alt.
Geboren am 15.09.1613 in Paris
Gestorben am 17.03.1680 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau
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The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reuputation than is achieved by true merit.
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The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance.
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The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.
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The defects of the understanding, like those of the face, grow worse as we grow old.
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The fame of great men ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it.
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The fame of men ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it.
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The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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The labor of the body relieves us from the fatigues of the mind; and it is this which forms the happiness of the poor.
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The love of justice in most men is only the fear of suffering injustice.
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The more we love the nearer we are to hate.
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The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
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The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
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The only security is courage.
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The only thing constant in life is change.
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The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion we feel than in that which we excite.
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The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have.
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The reason why lovers are never weary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.
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The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.