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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
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We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.
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For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
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The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.
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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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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.
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One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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