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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
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Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
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Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.
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We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
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Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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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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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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Raillery is more insupportable than wrong because we have a right to resent injuries, but are ridiculous in being angry at a jest.
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Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.
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Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.
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There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit.
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Our desires always disappoint us for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]
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Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content that is why most men are miserable.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.
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