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Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.
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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France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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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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He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
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There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
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Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.
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We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
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