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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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One of the greatest and also the commonest of faults is for men to believe that, because they never hear their shortcomings spoken of, or read about them in cold print, others can have no knowledge of them. GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG, The Reflections of Lichtenberg We are often more agreeable through our faults than our good qualities.
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Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.
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Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.
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In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.
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Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.
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Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.
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We rarely ever perceive others as being sensible, except for those who agree with us.
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Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.
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We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring.
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Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully
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It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.
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