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To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.
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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He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.
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