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Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.
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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We often in our misfortunes take that for constancy and patience which is only dejection of mind we suffer without daring to holdup our heads, just as cowards let themselves be knocked on the head because they have not courage to strike back.
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A readiness to believe ill of others, before we have duly examined it, is the effect of laziness and pride. We are eager to find aculprit, and loath to give ourselves the trouble of examining the crime.
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Youth is a continual intoxication it is the fever of reason.
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The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly.
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High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.
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Solemnity is a device of the body to hide the faults of the mind.
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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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Folly pursues us at all periods of our lives. If someone seems wise it is only because his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune.
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Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
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Sincerity is an openness of heart we find it in very few people what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of others.
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There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.
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Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.
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