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Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age: 66 †
Born: 1613
Born: September 15
Died: 1680
Died: March 17
Memoirist
Military Personnel
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Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.
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Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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It is no tragedy to do ungrateful people favors, but it is unbearable to be indebted to a scoundrel.
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It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
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All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.
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The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.
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Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.
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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
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It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.
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Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
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There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.
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Old fools are greater fools than young ones.
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