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In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age: 66 †
Born: 1613
Born: September 15
Died: 1680
Died: March 17
Memoirist
Military Personnel
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Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
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Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
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We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
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Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.
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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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