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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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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.
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Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.
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A man is ridiculous less through the characteristics he has than through those he affects to have.
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The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.
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There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.
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What we take for virtue is often nothing but an assemblage of different actions, and of different interests, that fortune or our industry knows how to arrange.
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Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.
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One honor won is a surety for more.
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Our desires always disappoint us for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]
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Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
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A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
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There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.
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Penetration has an air of divination it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind.
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