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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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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Generally speaking, we would make a good bargain by renouncing all the good that people say of us, upon condition they would say no ill.
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The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.
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The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.
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If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
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There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance
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