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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
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Military Personnel
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France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
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Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.
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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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The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.
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Sincerity is an openness of heart we find it in very few people what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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The pleasure of love is in the loving and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
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Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.
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Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.
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Great men should not have great faults.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.
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Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.
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Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.
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