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François De La Rochefoucauld Facts
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François De La Rochefoucauld was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. It is said that his world-view was clear-eyed and urbane, and that he neither condemned human conduct nor sentimentally celebrated it. (1613 - 1680) |
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Quotes by François De La Rochefoucauld
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Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
François De La Rochefoucauld
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