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He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
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
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
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We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.
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Weak people cannot be sincere.
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Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.
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Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.
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What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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