veDik THOUGHTS ARE
OMNIPRESENT
FOR ETERNITY IN HUMANITY....
Francois La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680),
the French classical author who is best known for his maxims and epigrams
expressing a harsh or paradoxical truth in the briefest manner possible. La
Rochefoucauld was a cynical observer of King Louis XIV's court, who mostly saw
selfishness, hypocrisy, and weakness in general in human behavior.....Here
are some of his quotations which are profoundly
veDik in the knowledge of humanity contained in
SCIENCES OF CREATION AND LIFE called
veD in sNskRUt language......
- "Few men are sufficiently discerning to appreciate all the evil they
do." (very true in kli-yug
as DHARm is fading in
kli-yug)
- "Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise." (how
true in kli-yug as per
viSHANu puraaAN)
- "A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take
the least care of all to acquire." (veDik
statement in puraaANo)
- "In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow
of one almost always means the rise of another." (veDikly
mns = mind resides in one's
HRUDy = heart and with its tendency to always
question is the cause of all thoughts of actions and passions.)
- "Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors."
(how true in kli-yug as per
viSHANu puraaAN)
- "Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
"(how true in kli-yug as per
viSHANu puraaAN)
- "Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but
present evils triumph over it." (true in
kli-yug time era when evil predominates due
to lack of philosophy which is Darshan
(vision) of the TRUTH due to the effect of kli
who is the presiding Daevtaa
(deity) of the kli-yug time era)
- Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not
so often the result of a great design as of chance. (veDikly great
actions are one's kARm-fl or
results of kARm of one's
past lives)
Please click on the next line to read a short biography of this intellectual
with veDik thinking......
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A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF
François La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) - François VI,
also called le Prince de Marcillac, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
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Books &
Writers
Although La Rochefoucauld was very productive as a writer, he published only
two works, MÉMOIRES (1664), and the RÉFLEXIONS, OU SENTENCES ET MAXIMES MORALE
(1665), better known as the MAXIMES. Mémoires gained a wide audience but he
denied its authorship. The manuscript of Maximes was circulated in 1663 among a
select group of the guests of his friend, the Marquise de Sablé. A pirate
edition was published in 1664, and an authentic edition late in 1664, but dated
1665. It became popular and appeared in five editions during La Rochefoucauld's
lifetime.
Rochefoucauld's Maximes expressed the pessimism of the disillusioned nobility.
In the salons and at the court everybody made mutual observations about the
members of these circles, and cultivated intellectual competition at the expense
of others. In a short sketch of himself La Rouchefoucauld mentions that he loves
conversation, especially with women, but has found it hard to be other than
"reserved".
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