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Nature makes merit, and fortune puts it to work.
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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France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
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We forgive just so long as we love.
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The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.
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The greater part of mankind judge of men only by their fashionableness or their fortune.
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Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
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Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.
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Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
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Ability wins us the esteem of the true men luck, that of the people.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.
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To praise princes for virtues they do not possess is to insult them without fear of consequences.
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We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
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High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.
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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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