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Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.
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
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
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He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
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We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.
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Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.
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