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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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Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind.
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Men are inconsolable concerning the treachery of their friends or the deceptions of their enemies and yet they are often very highly satisfied to be both deceived and betrayed by their own selves.
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Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.
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A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.
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Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.
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It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.
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We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones.
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The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.
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The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly.
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When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
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A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.
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Hope and fear are inseparable.
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To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
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The passions often engender their contraries.
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Some reproaches praise some praises reproach.
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