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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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  • Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation.
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  • Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.
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  • Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
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  • Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.
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  • Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
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  • No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
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  • Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
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  • Nothing is so contagious as an example. We never do great good or evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others.
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  • Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
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  • Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so.
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  • Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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  • Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
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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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  • Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
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  • Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
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  • Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.
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  • Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
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  • Taste may change, but inclination never.
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  • The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.
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  • The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so.
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