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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
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
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As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
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We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.
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The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.
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