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The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.
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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Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.
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Men are not only prone to forget benefits they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.
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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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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
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That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid.
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What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.
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We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.
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Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride it seems to nourish and augment it it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.
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Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.
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It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.
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Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.
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We often boast that we are never bored but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
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If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.
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Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.
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