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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
Writer
Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
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The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
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Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.
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There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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Extreme boredom provides its own antidote.
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Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune.
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We always get bored with those whom we bore.
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It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
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We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
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A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others.
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Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.
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Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.
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Some reproaches praise some praises reproach.
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One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.
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Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love.
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Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.
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The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.
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