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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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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Jealousy is not love, but self-love.
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It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
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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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Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.
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Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.
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We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.
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Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.
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There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.
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To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.
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