Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

• The accent of the place in which one was born lingers in the mind and in the heart as it does in one’s speech.

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• Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

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• Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.

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• We are all strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

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• One is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one had hoped to be.

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• I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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• The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire.

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• You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

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• Women’s virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.

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• Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

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• Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

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• When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

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• When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

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• When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

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• When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.

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• When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.

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• Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.

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• What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

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• What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

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• What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

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Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (264)

Birth:	15th September, 1613
Death:	17th March, 1680
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Author

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Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld was born in Paris, France. He was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs, as well as an example of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman. He published 500 reflections on human behavior, calling the work Maximes.

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