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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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  • True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
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  • True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
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  • Usually we praise only to be praised.
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  • We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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  • We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire.
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  • We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.
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  • We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.
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  • We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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  • We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.
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  • We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.
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  • We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
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  • We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
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  • We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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  • We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
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  • We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
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  • We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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  • We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
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  • We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.
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  • We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
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  • We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
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