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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
Writer
Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Surety
Honor

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Fortune and humor govern the world.
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Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity and most men die because they cannot help it.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.
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Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.
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In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to be--and thus the world is merely composed of actors.
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Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
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Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.
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Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.
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Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant expectations others mistake great future advantages for small present interests.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.
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One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.
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Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt
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Considering how little the beginning or the ceasing to love is in our own power, it is foolish and unreasonable for the lover or his mistress to complain of one another's inconstancy.
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Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.
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The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
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Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
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Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.
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