Quotes from authors passed in 1680
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Charlotte Rampling 
Joseph Needham 
Amrish Puri 
Chiwetel Ejiofor 
Chris Cornell 
Axl Rose 
Randy Bachman 
Aron Ralston Authors that died in 1680