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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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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
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It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.
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The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.
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Youth is a perpetual intoxication it is a fever of the mind.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured.
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Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
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Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
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Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
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Hope is the last thing that dies in man and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
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We sometimes differ more widely from ourselves than we do from others.
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There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.
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The only security is courage.
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Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.
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No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.
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We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
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Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.
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We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.
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Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence to the prejudice of the future.
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