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Fortune and humor govern the world.
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
World
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The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
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Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
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Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
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The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.
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It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in.
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When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
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We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
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Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.
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One should treat one's fate as one does one's health enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.
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We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.
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All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.
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Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.
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We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.
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To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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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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Great men should not have great faults.
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