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It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
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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François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.
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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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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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For envy, like lightning, generally strikes at the top Or any point which sticks out from the ordinary level. LUCRETIUS, De Rerum Natura Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.
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To boast that one never flirts is actually a kind of flirtation.
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If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
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Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood age retains its tastes by habit.
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There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when they love no longer.
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The passions often engender their contraries.
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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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There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of.
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Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation.
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How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?
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We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.
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The accent of a man's native country remains in his mind and his heart, as it does in his speech.
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We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
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The health of the soul is something we can be no more sure of than that of the body and though a man may seem far from the passions, yet he is in as much danger of falling into them as one in a perfect state of health of having a fit of sickness.
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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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Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free.
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Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
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