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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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Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.
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We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
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Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.
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The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.
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Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.
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We forgive just so long as we love.
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Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.
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The duration of our passions is no more dependent on ourselves than the duration of our lives.
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Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
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It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.
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One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.
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It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
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A good woman is a hidden treasure who discovers her will do well not to boast about it.
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Our desires always disappoint us for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]
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Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.
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The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
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Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
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The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.
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Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.
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It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.
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