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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
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Military Personnel
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France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
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In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
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The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.
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There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.
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Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood age retains its tastes by habit.
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There are various sorts of curiosity one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.
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Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
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Men are not only prone to forget benefits they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.
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All women seem by nature to be coquettes.
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It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.
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Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.
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A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.
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A good woman is a hidden treasure who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.
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Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
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The only security is courage.
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