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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Be Happy Believe Happy Interested Making More Others Ourselves Than Trying

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The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Does Owe Pay Pride Vanity Wish

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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Due More Our Passions Resist Strength Than Weakness

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I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Topics: Admiration Admirer Always Amount Been Gift Indispensable Know Regard Something Where Without Would

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

~Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Writer

Born: September 15th, 1613

Died: March 17th, 1680

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