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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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Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.
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There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.
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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
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Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
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We like to read others but we do not like to be read.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.
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It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride it seems to nourish and augment it it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
