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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
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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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Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.
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When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
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Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.
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It is difficult to define love all we can say is, that in the soul it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body it is a hidden and delicate wish to possess what we love-Plus many mysteries.
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It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love.
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Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors.
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It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.
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Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.
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More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray.
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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.
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Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy.
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It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.
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The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.
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We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.
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It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.
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There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.
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