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François de La Rochefoucauld
(15 Sep 1613 - 16 Mar 1680)
French author whose Maxims presents a disillusioned view of mankind, using a French form of epigram, which tersely expresses harsh or paradoxical truth.
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Science Quotes by François de La Rochefoucauld (4 quotes)
La jeunesse est une ivresse continuelle: c’est la fièvre de la raison.
Youth is continual intoxication; it is a fever of reason.
Youth is continual intoxication; it is a fever of reason.
— François de La Rochefoucauld
Original French from Maximes et Réflexions Morales (1796), 40, Maxim 279. This English translation in Maxims and Moral Reflexions: An Improved Edition (1797), 126, Maxim 503.
Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.
— François de La Rochefoucauld
Maxims (1678), no. 26, trans. F. G. Stevens (1939), 11.
It is a great folly to wish to be exclusively wise.
— François de La Rochefoucauld
In Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims (1851), 72.
It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.
— François de La Rochefoucauld
Maxims (1678), no. 436, trans. F. G. Stevens (1939), 137.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
