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Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
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
Never
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We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.
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Our desires always disappoint us for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]
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If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
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Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.
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The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.
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There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.
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We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.
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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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There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.
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Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.
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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 easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.
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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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