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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age: 66 †
Born: 1613
Born: September 15
Died: 1680
Died: March 17
Memoirist
Military Personnel
Writer
Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
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There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.
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The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.
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Only the great can afford to have great defects.
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There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.
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The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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The only security is courage.
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No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.
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Eloquence: saying the proper thing and stopping.
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Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.
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Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.
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Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.
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A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.
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Moderation resembles temperance. We are not so unwilling to eat more, as afraid of doing ourselves harm by it.
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One may outwit another, but not all the others.
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Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.
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Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.
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Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.
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If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
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When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one the other is based on our pride in being faithful.
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