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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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We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.
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One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.
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Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.
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A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.
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We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.
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The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.
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A man often believes himself leader when he is led as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
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Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.
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Happy people rarely correct their faults they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
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It is difficult to define love all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.
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