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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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It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
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Some follies are caught, like contagious diseases.
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A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.
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Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.
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The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.
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All who know their own minds know not their own hearts.
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Humility is the worst form of conceit.
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Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.
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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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We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all.
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The passions possess a certain injustice and self interest which makes it dangerous to follow them, and in reality we should distrust them even when they appear most trustworthy.
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Youth is a perpetual intoxication it is a fever of the mind.
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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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It is as common for tastes to change as it is uncommon for traits of character.
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We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.
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Sincerity is an openness of heart we find it in very few people what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
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There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
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Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.
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Perseverance is neither praiseworthy nor blameworthy for it seems to be only the enduring of certain inclinations and opinions which men neither give themselves nor take away from themselves.
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Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
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