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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Great Haste Ingratitude Kind Obligation Repay Too

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Folly Height Only Want Wise

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Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Decency Law Laws Least Most Observed Strictly Which

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

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Find Long People Seldom Serve Them Thought Ungrateful

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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Fortunes Judging Know Men Met Most Other People Vogue Way Worth

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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Deserves Generally Goodness His Impotence Man More Nothing Power Praised Sloth Than Who Wicked Will Without

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

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Amended Cannot Character Defect Only Weakness Which

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Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Causes Conceit Conversation More Than Wit

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When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Imagine Leave Leaving Like Our Them Us Vices Who

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Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Being Birth Bounds Capable Determined Each Good His How Man Marked Nature Out Seems Shall Vices Virtues Wicked

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: September 15th, 1613

Died: March 17th, 1680

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