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The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
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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François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Women
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Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.
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Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
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There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.
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