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It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for those we do.
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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However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.
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We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.
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Our enemies' opinion of us comes closer to the truth than our own.
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It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination.
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Self-interest speaks all manner of tongues and plays all manner of parts, even that of disinterestedness.
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Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
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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 less you trust others, the less you will be deceived.
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There are certain defects which, well-mounted, glitter like virtue itself.
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Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility.
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The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones.
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Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.
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Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.
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How can we be answerable for what we shall want in the future, since we have no clear idea of what we want now?
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