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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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The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.
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Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.
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We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.
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There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.
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We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.
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A wise man should order his interests, and set them all in their proper places. This order is often troubled by greed, which putsus upon pursuing so many things at once that, in eagerness for matters of less consideration, we grasp at trifles, and let go things of greater value.
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All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.
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Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.
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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.
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Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.
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Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
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Jealousy is not love, but self-love.
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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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The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.
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More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.
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One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.
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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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Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.
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