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It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.
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
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.
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Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.
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Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.
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The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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In order to succeed in the world people do their upmost to appear successful.
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