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Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.
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 a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.
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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
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Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
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The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.
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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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To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.
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However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
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Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.
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Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.
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The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.
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In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.
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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.
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We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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In the human heart one generation of passions follows another from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next.
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Nothing is rarer than real goodness.
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We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.
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As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
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There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.
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In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.
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