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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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Military Personnel
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France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
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We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.
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What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.
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It is difficult to define love all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.
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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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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.
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True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
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We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.
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We like to read others but we do not like to be read.
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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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The reason why most women have so little sense of friendship is that this is but a cold and flat passion to those that have felt that of love.
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The intellect of the generality of women serves more to fortify their folly than their reason.
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What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one.
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Gratitude is like credit it is the backbone of our relations frequently we pay our debts not because equity demands that we should, but to facilitate future loans.
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Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.
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That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.
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We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.
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Not all who discharge their debts of gratitude should flatter themselves that they are grateful.
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