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As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.
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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François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
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When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.
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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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Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body which it animates.
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None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will.
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If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.
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Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.
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Fortune mends more faults in us than ever reason would be able to do.
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As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.
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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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Men are not only prone to forget benefits they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury, or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
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People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
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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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Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.
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Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.
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Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
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