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Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Age: 66 †
Born: 1613
Born: September 15
Died: 1680
Died: March 17
Memoirist
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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A lofty mind always thinks nobly, it easily creates vivid, agreeable, and natural fancies, places them in their best light, clothes them with all appropriate adornments, studies others' tastes, and clears away from its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Whatever pretended causes we may blame our afflictions upon, it is often nothing but self-interest and vanity that produce them.
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The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride it seems to nourish and augment it it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.
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Women know not the whole of their coquetry.
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Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
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Weakness is the only fault that is incorrigible.
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The extreme delight we experience in talking about ourselves should warn us that those who listen do not share it.
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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
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