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Our actions are like blank rhymes, to which everyone applies what sense he pleases.
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
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.
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The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp but never in a court.
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Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
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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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Happy people rarely correct their faults they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
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Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
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We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.
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