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A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.
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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France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.
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In infants, levity is a prettiness in men a shameful defect but in old age, a monstrous folly.
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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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He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
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Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.
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Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error of judgment.
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We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire.
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Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.
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Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
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