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Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.

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
Writer
Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Dishonour
Ridicule

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Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.
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We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
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Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.
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Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.
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