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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
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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If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.
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One thing which makes us find so few people who appear reasonable and agreeable in conversation is, that there is scarcely any one who does not think more of what he is about to say than of answering precisely what is said to him.
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If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
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Old fools are greater fools than young ones.
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We forgive just so long as we love.
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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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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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All women seem by nature to be coquettes.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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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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Some people are so extremely whiffling and inconsiderable that they are as far from any real faults as from substantial virtues.
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Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.
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We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment.
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The caprice of our temper is even more whimsical than that of Fortune.
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We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.
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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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In infants, levity is a prettiness in men a shameful defect but in old age, a monstrous folly.
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Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.
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There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.
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