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Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

French writer

Lived from: 1613 - 1680

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 15 september 1613 Died: 17 march 1680

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  • Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
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  • Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.
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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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  • Fortune and humor govern the world.
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  • Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.
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  • Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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  • Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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  • He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
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  • He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.
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  • Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.
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  • Hope and fear are inseparable.
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  • Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.
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  • How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
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  • How ever a brilliant an action, it should not be viewed as great unless it is the result of a great motive.
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  • However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.
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  • Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.
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  • Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.
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  • If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!
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  • If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.
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  • If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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