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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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The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
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One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.
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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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Before we passionately desire a thing, we should examine the happiness of its possessor.
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It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.
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The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.
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