Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

• A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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

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

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• We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

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• We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

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• Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

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• There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

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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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• Jealously is always born with love but it does not die with it.

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• To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

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• Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

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• They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

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• He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.

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• Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

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• People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

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• Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.

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• Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

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• Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

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• Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

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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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