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Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
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
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.
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Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
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Old people love to give good advice it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.
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People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not.
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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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Ability wins us the esteem of the true men luck, that of the people.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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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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We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.
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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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We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
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The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.
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