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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
Writer
Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Nothing
Contagious
Example

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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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We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
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Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
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Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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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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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.
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Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
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Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
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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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