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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age: 66 †
Born: 1613
Born: September 15
Died: 1680
Died: March 17
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Military Personnel
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France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content that is why most men are miserable.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
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The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
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We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.
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Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.
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Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
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The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
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