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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
Memoirist
Military Personnel
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Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.
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Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.
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There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.
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Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
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However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.
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Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.
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Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.
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It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.
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The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.
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A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.
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Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.
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