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Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age: 66 †
Born: 1613
Born: September 15
Died: 1680
Died: March 17
Memoirist
Military Personnel
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Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Fortune
Blind
Seems
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Favors
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.
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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
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What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
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The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
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Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.
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There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.
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Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.
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Youth is a continual intoxication it is the fever of reason.
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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
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Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.
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The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
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