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Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.
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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Military Personnel
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François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.
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Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.
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We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.
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We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.
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It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.
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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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The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
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On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.
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Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.
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When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.
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Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.
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