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True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
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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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.
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A man often believes himself leader when he is led as his mind endeavors to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards another.
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Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
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The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.
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Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.
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Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
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There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.
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The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.
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Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.
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We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.
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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.
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The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.
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Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.
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Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.
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Some reproaches praise some praises reproach.
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In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.
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