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We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
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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François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
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When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
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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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The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
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The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.
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The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.
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Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.
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There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.
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A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.
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