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Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.
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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Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
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Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.
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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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The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.
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We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.
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All the passions make us commit faults love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.
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Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.
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