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There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.
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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Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.
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We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.
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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
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The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.
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Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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Almost everyone takes pleasure in repaying trifling obligations, very many feel gratitude for those that are moderate but there is scarcely anyone who is not ungrateful for those that are weighty.
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Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.
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Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
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Few know how to be old.
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Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.
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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
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