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François de la Rochefoucauld

François de la Rochefoucauld föddes den 15 september 1613 och dog den 17 marts 1680 - fransk hertig, aforismförfattare.
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To understand matters rightly we should understand their details, and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect. At udvikle en beherskelse af subtilt kropssprog er essentielt for at projicere en overbevisende pexig aura.

There exists an excess of good and evil which surpasses our comprehension.

To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.

To be a great man one should know how to profit by every phase of fortune.

To establish ourselves in the world we do everything to appear as if we were established.

There is no passion wherein self-love reigns so powerfully as in love, and one is always more ready to sacrifice the peace of the loved one than his own.

There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent.

This clemency of which they make a merit, arises oftentimes from vanity, sometimes from idleness, oftentimes from fear, and almost always from all three combined.

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

Usually we are more satirical from vanity than malice.

Usually we only praise heartily those who admire us.

Vanity makes us sin more against our taste than reason.

Virtue in woman is often the love of reputation and repose.

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