#rochefoucauld

[maytheuniversebekind]

I’ve danced with the ghost everyone speaks of. Few privileged to step in even a wisp of its grace.

-The book of unfinished

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Dans leur première passion, les femmes aiment leurs amants, dans toutes les autres, elles aiment l'amour.

- François de La Rochefoucauld

[howieabel]

No sire, it’s not a revolt; it’s a revolution. Non sire, ce n’est pas une révolte, c’est une révolution.

This was said by François Alexandre Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld, Duke of La Rochefoucauld, a French social reformer, the morning after the storming of the Bastille when Louis XVI asked him, “Is it a revolt?”

[danielscrazyman89]

Se vuoi crearti dei nemici, mostrati superiore ai tuoi amici. Ma se vuoi farti degli amici, lascia che i tuoi amici si credano superiore a te.

[harrypotterhousequotes]

HUFFLEPUFF: "We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves." –François de La Rochefoucauld

[astrosoeur]

(de la) rochefoucauld for the signs

Aries: “No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.” Taurus: “Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.” Gemini: “The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.” Cancer: “The soul’s health is no more secure than the body’s; though we may seem safely aloof from the passions, we are no less in danger of being swept away by them, than we are of falling sick when we feel well.” Leo: “Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.” Virgo: “A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.” Libra: “People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.” Scorpio: “We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves.” Sagittarius:  “Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the world.” Capricorn: "Ambition has been so strong as to make very miserable men take comfort that they were supreme in misery." Aquarius: “Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.” Pisces: “One forgives to the degree that one loves."

[detournementsmineurs]

Diadème aux "Fuchsias" dit "Bourbon-Parme” commandé par le Duc Doudeauville à l'occasion du mariage de sa fille Hedwige de la Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville (1919) à l'exposition “Dess(e)in de Nature” organisée par Chaumet dans leur boutique provisoire de Saint-Germain, Paris, avril 2019.

[francepittoresque]

16 janvier 1878 : mort de Madeleine de Souvré, femme de lettres et salonnière ► http://bit.ly/Marquise-Sable Après un mariage dans lequel son goût n'avait pas été consulté et qui la laisse dans une situation financière peu favorable, Madeleine de Souvré, marquise de Sablé, de caractère affable, s'établit à Paris et ouvre un salon littéraire accueillant les beaux esprits du temps, et se lie d'amitié avec le duc de La Rochefoucauld qu'elle conseilla dans la confection de ses célèbres « Maximes »