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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
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Military Personnel
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France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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There are very few things impossible in themselves and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.
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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
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Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
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The cunningest dissimulation is when a man pretends to be caught in the traps others set for him and a man is never so easily over-reached as when he is contriving to over-reach others.
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Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.
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Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.
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The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
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Το know how to profit by good advice, requires nearly as much ability as to know how to act for one'self.
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We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.
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Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
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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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Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.
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Few know how to be old.
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There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
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The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.
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The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.
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To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.
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