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We always get bored with those whom we bore.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Ability Act Advice Good Good Advice How Know Much Nearly Profit Self Takes

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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Evil Good Heroes Well

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

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Bore Cannot Forgive Often Those Us We Cannot Who Whom

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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Ambition Disguised Generosity Great Great One Interest More Often Order Secure Seems Small Than Which

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

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Always Born Die Does Love

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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Ambition Does Leads Love Often Return Seldom To Love

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Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Against Being Best Blockhead Cheated Man Security Sometimes Wit

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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Age Defects Face Grow Like Mind Those Worse

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

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Come Deceive Others Ourselves Time Used

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: September 15th, 1613

Died: March 17th, 1680

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