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Nature creates ability luck provides it with opportunity.
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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If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
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The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.
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Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.
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All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.
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There are certain people fated to be fools they not only commit follies by choice, but are even constrained to do so by fortune.
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The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous.
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The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance
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Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
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Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.
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Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
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In the human heart one generation of passions follows another from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
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The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.
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When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.
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People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity
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Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
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It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
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