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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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  • There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
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  • There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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  • There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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  • There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults.
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  • There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
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  • There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.
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  • There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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  • There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
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  • There is no disguise that can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.
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  • There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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  • There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
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  • Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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  • Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
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  • Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.
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  • To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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  • To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.
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  • To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
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  • To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
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  • Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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  • True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
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