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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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Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
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One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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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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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
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Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves.
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There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
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Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
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The truest comparison we can make of love is to liken it to a fever we have no more power over the one than the other, either as to its violence or duration.
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A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.
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Not to love is in love an infallible means of being loved.
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Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.
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Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.
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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.
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The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
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Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
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Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
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