Fran%C3%A7ois de La Rochefoucauld (writer)
Franois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. It is said that his worldview was cleareyed and urbane, and that he neither condemned human conduct nor sentimentally celebrated it. Born in Paris on the Rue des Petits Champs, at a time when the royal court was vacillating between aiding the nobility and threatening it, he was considered an exemplar of the accomplished 17thcentury nobleman. Until 1650, he bore the title of Prince de Marcillac.
CDXXXIII. The truest mark of having been born with great qualities is to have been born without envy.
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