La Rochefoucauld
Americannoun
noun
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The French aphorist François de La Rochefoucauld remarked that “hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
He can also be as worldly-wise as La Rochefoucauld: “It is very hard for a man, however modest, to grasp the possibility that a woman who has once loved him may love him no longer.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 31, 2019
Dashing and brave, Robert de La Rochefoucauld was a member of the French Resistance who came from an aristocratic family.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2018
Paraphrasing François de La Rochefoucauld, I think that hypocrisy is sometimes the homage that truthiness pays to truth.
From Slate ● Nov. 17, 2015
We have nothing to do with the moral side of the matter here, and it is sufficient to say that La Rochefoucauld is not an advocate of the selfish or any other school of moralists.
From A Short History of French Literature by George Saintsbury
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