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François de La Rochefoucauld

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Biography - François de La Rochefoucauld:

French moralist, author of maxims and memoirs.
Born: 1613 - Died: 1680
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

Neither the sun nor death can be looked at without winking.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims


Note 

Note



Other version: "Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye."


Quote source: Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Wikisource - La Rochefoucauld - Maximes et Réflexions morales (fr) 



Translation

Translation

(French, German, Italian)



French
Le soleil ni la mort ne se peuvent regarder fixement.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales

German
Weder die Sonne noch den Tod kann man fest anblicken.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Maximen und Reflexionen

Italian
il sole e la morte non si possono guardare fissamente



See also 

See also...



Truth is like the sun. It casts light on everything but does not let itself stared at.
Victor Hugo

To a Friend of Light
If you want to spare your eyes and your mind,
follow the sun from the shadows behind.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science



Quotes for: death


Quotes

Quotes about death:


As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Trivulzianus / 





The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Mark Twain / 





Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.
Epicurus / 





Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer / 





A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
Baruch Spinoza - Ethics / 





After your death you will be what you were before your birth.
Arthur Schopenhauer / 






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Quotes for: sun


Quotes

Quotes for: sun


The sun is new each day.
Heraclitus of Ephesus - Fragments / 





It is found again.
What? Eternity.
It is the sea
Gone with the sun.
Arthur Rimbaud - L'Éternité / 





What good is all sunrise, if we do not stand up?
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg / 





Education is another sun to those who are educated.
Heraclitus of Ephesus / 





You must be very polite to the Earth
And to the sun
Jacques Prévert / 





The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David Thoreau - Walden; or, Life in the Woods / 






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Quotes

François de La Rochefoucauld also said...


It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





Few people know how to be old.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 





We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims / 







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