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Old people are fond of giving good advice it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
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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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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To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
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There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves it is the quality which wins us deference of others more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.
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One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.
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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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The passions often engender their contraries.
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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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Organize one's values in the order of their worth
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It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
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If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
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