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

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• Hypocrisy is a tribute which vice pays to virtue.

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• We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears.

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• However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

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

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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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• We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

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• It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

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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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• It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

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  Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

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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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• Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

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• Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

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• It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

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• Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

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• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

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Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (264)

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

About

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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