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That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own.
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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France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
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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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Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.
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Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.
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Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty.
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There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.
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A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.
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What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit.
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We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.
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We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.
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It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.
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