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When our hatred is too alive puts us below what we hate.
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
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We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
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Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.
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The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves.
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A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.
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The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.
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A weak mind is the only defect out of our power to mend.
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It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
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Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
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The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
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Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills.
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It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.
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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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