Duc De La Rochefoucauld Quotes

Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road
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He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks
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Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye
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Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a worrisome malady
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How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary
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Biography

French moralist, 1613-80