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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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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Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
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Prudence and love are inconsistent in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.
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What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.
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Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.
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We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.
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Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.
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It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.
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Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.
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