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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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François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
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It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.
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Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.
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Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental qualities. It always pleases when it is refined, but we always fear those who use it too much yet satire should be allowed when unmixed with spite, and when the person satirized can join in the satire.
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We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
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If it were not for poetry, few men would ever fall in love.
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The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.
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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
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Love is one and the same in the original but there are a thousand different copies of it.
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The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.
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What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.
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Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
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Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
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Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.
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Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.
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There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.
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In love we often doubt what we most believe.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.
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