Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

• What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

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• What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

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• What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

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• Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

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• We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

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• We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them.

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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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• 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 seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

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• We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

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• We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

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• We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

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• We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

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• We pardon to the extent that we love.

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• We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

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• We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

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• We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

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• We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

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• We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

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• We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

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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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