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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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Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.
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Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
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Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.
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Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.
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Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.
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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
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Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.
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It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.
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The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.
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The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
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Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.
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Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
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Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.
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That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.
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All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
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Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
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When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from all.
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Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.
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