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Some reproaches praise some praises reproach.
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 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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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
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We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
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We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.
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A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.
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It is as easy to unknowingly deceive yourself as it is to deceive others.
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Love's greatest miracle is the curing of coquetry.
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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
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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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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.
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Youth is a perpetual intoxication it is a fever of the mind.
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Happy people rarely correct their faults they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.
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The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.
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Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
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Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.
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The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them.
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Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.
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