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FRANCOIS LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
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Few people know how to be old. |
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Flattery is a false coin, which would have no currency but for our vanity. |
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Fortune and humor govern the world. |
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Fortune breaks us of many faults which reason could not do. |
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Fortune turns everything to the advantage of those she favors. |
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Good nature, which boasts of being so very sensible, is often stifled by the smallest interest. |
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Greater virtues are required to bear a good fortune than an ill one. |
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Happiness is in the taste and not in the things enjoyed; and it is a man's having that which he loves that makes him happy, and not what others think lovely. |
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Happiness or unhappiness commonly go to them who have most of the one or the other. |
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Happy people are never to be corrected; they always think they are in the right when fortune supports their ill conduct. |
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He that would be a great man, ought to know how to push his fortune to the utmost. |
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Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us through a pleasant road to our lives end. |
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However brilliant an action it should not be esteemed great unless the result of a great motive. |
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Humility is the altar upon which God would have us offer our sacrifices. |
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Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays virtue. |
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If we are able to resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than our strength. |
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If we did not flatter others, the flattery of others could never hurt us. |
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If we had no defects of our own, we should not take so much pleasure, as we do, to remark defects in others. |
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If we were not proud of ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others. |
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In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy, by the things we doo not know, than by those we know. |
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