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One honor won is a surety for more.
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
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Surety
Honor
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Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.
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We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, as also to the air and complexion of the person.
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Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.
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The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.
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It is difficult to define love all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.
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The greatest part of our faults are more excusable than the methods that are commonly taken to conceal them.
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True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.
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