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There are some bad qualities which make great talents.

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
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Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.
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The health of the soul is as precarious as that of the body for when we seem secure from passions, we are no less in danger of their infection than we are of falling ill when we appear to be well.
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Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.
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Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.
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Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
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Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
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Even women are perfect at the outset.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.
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Nothing is rarer than real goodness.
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It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
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