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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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Paris
France
François VI
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Prince de Marcillac
François
Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.
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When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate.
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There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.
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One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.
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Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune.
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Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.
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Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.
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The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.
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It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
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Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly.
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The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it.
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Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.
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