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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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We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
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Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men.
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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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We often credit ourselves with vices the reverse of what we have, thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.
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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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It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.
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If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
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Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood age retains its tastes by habit.
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Our desires always disappoint us for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]
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Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
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The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.
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Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age.
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Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.
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As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.
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Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.
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Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.
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