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What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
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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François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.
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We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.
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It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.
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Sincerity is an openness of heart we find it in very few people what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
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Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.
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To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
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There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.
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The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
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Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
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Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
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To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.
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The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
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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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One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.
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