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In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
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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Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.
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The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.
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We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
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When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.
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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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We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.
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Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.
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As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
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The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.
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Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.
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The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
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There are some faults which, when well managed, make a greater figure than virtue itself.
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There are various sorts of curiosity one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.
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If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.
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Men and things have each their proper perspective to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.
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