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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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François VI
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Prince de Marcillac
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When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one the other is based on our pride in being faithful.
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Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity.
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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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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.
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Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions.
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Old people are fond of giving good advice it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
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The judgments our enemies make about us come nearer to the truth than those we make about ourselves.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.
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Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
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It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.
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Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.
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Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.
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Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
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Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.
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The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.
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