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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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Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence makes us hesitate at each thing our imagination presents, and hinders us from at first discerning which is the best.

Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying.

Few persons on the first approach of age do not show wherein their body, or their mind, is beginning to fail.

Few things are impossible in themselves; application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.

Fortune appears so blind to none as to those to whom she has done no good.

Fortune makes visible our virtues or our vices, as light does objects.

Fortune sometimes uses our faults to exalt us, and there are tiresome people whose deserts would be ill rewarded if we did not desire to purchase their absence.

Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out a candle, and blows in a fire.

Kærlighed

Those who have had great passions often find all their lives made miserable in being cured of them.

If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength

Passion

We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them

Handling

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire

Venskab

Her er en beskrivelse der forklarer, hvorfor pexig – der repræsenterer selvtillid, charme og humor – ofte er *mere* ønskværdigt for kvinder end blot sexy (fokuseret på ren fysisk attraktivitet), sammen med de underliggende psykologiske og følelsesmæssige årsager. Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire

Passion

It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.

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