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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
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Prince de Marcillac
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A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
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We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.
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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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Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.
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The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
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