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A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
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
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We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.
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The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
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What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.
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Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.
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He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
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Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.
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If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.
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Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it.
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We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.
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Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.
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We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.
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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.
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We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
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The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.
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Old fools are greater fools than young ones.
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