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No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains.
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
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
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Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.
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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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Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.
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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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There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves it is the quality which wins us deference of others more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.
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Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.
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Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.
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A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly.
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Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.
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Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.
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The great interests of man: air and light, the joy of having a body, the voluptuousness of looking.
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Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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We always get bored with those whom we bore.
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When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.
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The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.
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