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Madmen and fools see everything through the medium of humor.
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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Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Madmen
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Everything
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Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.
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Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.
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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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We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.
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Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
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Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
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Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
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Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
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To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.
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One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.
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Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.
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It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.
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