Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

• We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.

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• We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

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• We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

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• We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

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• We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

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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 confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

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• We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

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• We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

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

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• We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

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• We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

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• We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

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• We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be.

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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 more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

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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 easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

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• We are all strong enough to bear other men’s misfortunes.

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• We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.

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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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