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Eloquence resides as much in the tone of voice, in the eyes, and in the expression of the face, as in the choice of words.

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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Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as it is, often masters them all she influences all our designs and actions, and insensibly consumes and destroys both passions and virtues.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
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A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.
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One should treat one's fate as one does one's health enjoy it when it is good, be patient with it when it is poor, and never attempt any drastic cure save as an ultimate resort.
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Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.
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Great men should not have great faults.
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To establish ourselves in the world, we have to do all we can to appear established. To succeed in the world, we do everything we can to appear successful.
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There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.
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The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.
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The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
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Many young persons believe themselves natural when they are only impolite and coarse.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.
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Our minds are as much given to laziness as our bodies.
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Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope.
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Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
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