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The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon 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
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François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
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Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it.
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Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.
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Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company.
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Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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The sicknesses of the soul have their ups and downs like those of the body what we take to be a cure is most often merely a respite or change of disease.
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Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
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