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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
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Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
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All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
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There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.
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Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.
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He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.
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We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.
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The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.
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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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We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.
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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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We always get bored with those whom we bore.
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Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.
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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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Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.
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One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.
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The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.
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