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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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François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
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The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
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Selfishness is the grand moving principle of nine-tenths of our actions.
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The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
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Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.
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