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There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.
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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François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
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How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?
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Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.
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The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.
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