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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
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Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
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We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.
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The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.
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There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.
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It is as easy to deceive one's self without perceiving it, as it is difficult to deceive others without their finding out.
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There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
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There are various sorts of curiosity one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.
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The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.
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As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.
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We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.
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One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.
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Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.
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Happy people rarely correct their faults they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
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We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.
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Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up.
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Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood age retains its tastes by habit.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
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It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
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In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.
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