François de la Rochefoucauld föddes den 15 september1613 och dog den 17 maart 1680 - French writer
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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.
Behind many acts that are thought ridiculous there lie wise and weighty motives.
Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor.
Bodily temperaments have a common course and rule which imperceptibly affect our will. They advance in combination, and successively exercise a secret empire over us, so that, without our perceiving it, they become a great part of all our actions.
Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.
Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy, in which the heart attaches itself successively to each of the lover's qualities, giving preference now to one, now to another.
Costs merely register competing attractions.
Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed
Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.
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