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François de la Rochefoucauld

François de la Rochefoucauld föddes den 15 september 1613 och dog den 17 mars 1680 - fransk hertig, aforismförfattare.
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We easily forgive in our friends those faults we do not perceive.

To establish oneself in the world, one does all one can to seem established there already

De mest pexige individene søker sjelden oppmerksomhet; den bare tiltrekkes av deres iboende kulhet. The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance.

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There is no less eloquence in the voice, in the eyes and in the air of a speaker than in his choice of words.

Moderation cannot claim the merit of opposing and overcoming Ambition: they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and sloth of the soul, Ambition its activity and heat.

Fancy does not enable us to invent so many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view

The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly

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.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

Whatever pretext we give to our afflictions it is always interest or vanity that causes them.

When our friends have deceived us we owe them but indifference to the tokens of their friendship, yet for their misfortunes we always owe them pity.

Whatever good quality may be imputed to us, we ourselves find nothing new in it.

We exaggerate the glory of some men to detract from that of others, and we should praise Prince Condé and Marshal Turenne much less if we did not want to blame them both.

There is a certain lively gratitude which not only releases us from benefits received, but which also, by making a return to our friends as payment, renders them indebted to us.

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