In existographies, Francois Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) (IQ:170|#350) (Cattell 1000:621) [RGM:261|1,500+], aka “La Rochefoucauld” (Ѻ), was a French writer noted for booklet Maxims, characterized as a dense collection of 504 sharp one-line philosophies, curated, tested, and developed in the French salons.
Influenced
The Maxims of Rochefoucauld, according (Ѻ) to Voltaire, was one of the single biggest things that shaped French minds; Rochefoucauld was frequently name-dropped by Nietzsche. [1]
Quotes | By
The following are noted quotes by Rochefoucauld:
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”— Francois Rochefoucauld (c.1865), Maxims
“Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.”
— Francois Rochefoucauld (c.1865)
“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
— Francois Rochefoucauld (c.1865)
References
1. Nietzsche, Friedrich. (1885). Will to Power: An Attempt at a Revaluation of All Values (translator: Walter Kaufmann and Reginald Hollingdale; editor: Walter Kaufmann) (pdf) (txt). Random House, 2011.
External links
● Francois de la Rochefoucauld – Wikipedia.
