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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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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It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.
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Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.
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We pardon to the extent that we love.
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To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
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Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.
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Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.
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He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.]
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We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.
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Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
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A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
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The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
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It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning.
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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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Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.
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The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.
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Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.
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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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