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History never embraces more than a small part of reality
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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Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.
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Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.
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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
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We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.
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The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others.
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We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.
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Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.
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We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.
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Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
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Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.
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The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.
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Happy people rarely correct their faults they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
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Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.
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There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.
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Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.
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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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We like to read others but we do not like to be read.
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