Love Is Like Ghosts
“True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.”
—Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
—Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
François VI, Duc de La
Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, 15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was a noted
French author of maxims and memoirs. It is said that
his world-view was clear-eyed 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 17th-century nobleman. Until 1650, he bore the title of Prince de Marcillac.
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