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
Such a pensée fits with the French moralist tradition of Montaigne, Pascal and La Rochefoucauld, yet Baudelaire always regarded Edgar Allan Poe, whom he translated, as his spiritual brother.
From Washington Post ● May 11, 2022
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
Brave, spirited, a touch of chivalry in him, honorable and amiable as the world reckons of its own, La Rochefoucauld ran a career consistent throughout with his own master-principle—self-love.
From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver
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