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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age: 66 †
Born: 1613
Born: September 15
Died: 1680
Died: March 17
Memoirist
Military Personnel
Writer
Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Thing
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When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.
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As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
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There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.
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What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
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The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.
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The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
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True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.
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Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
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Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.
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Youth is a perpetual intoxication it is a fever of the mind.
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