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Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.
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
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Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money
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The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
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We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.
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Great names abase, instead of elevating, those who do not know how to bear them.
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Love has its name borrowed by a great number of dealings and affairs that are attributed to it--in which it has no greater part than the Doge in what is done at Venice.
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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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When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.
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All women seem by nature to be coquettes.
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