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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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Nothing is so contagious as example.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.
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A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.
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Men and things have each their proper perspective to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.
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We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
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Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.
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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
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It is easier to deceive yourself, and to do so unperceived, than to deceive another.
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Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.
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We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity
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Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.
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Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
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We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
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Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves we are happy from possessing what we like, not from possessing what others like.
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We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.
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