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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
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.
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It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
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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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As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.
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Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
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What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
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Our own distrust gives a fair pretence for the knavery of other people.
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Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.
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Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.
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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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No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.
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We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.
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Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.
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Organize one's values in the order of their worth
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Second-rate minds usually condemn everything beyond their grasp.
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However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
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