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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
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We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.
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The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
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The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
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He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]
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Gratitude is like credit it is the backbone of our relations frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.
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Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.
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Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.
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Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
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Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.
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Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
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Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
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Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
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We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.
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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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To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.
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Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
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