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Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.
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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François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
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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 most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
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Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.
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Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
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Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
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Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.
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