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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
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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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
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Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.
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Fortune and humor govern the world.
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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
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To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
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Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.
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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
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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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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
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As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.
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