Zitate von François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Informationen über François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Moralist, Aphoristiker, Offizier, mit seinen aphoristischen Texten gilt er als der älteste der französischen Moralisten, Werke: "Memoires"/1662, "Réflexions ou Sentences et maximes morales" (Frankreich, 1613 - 1680).
François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
François VI. Duc de La Rochefoucauld wäre heute 410 Jahre, 8 Monate, 4 Tage oder 149.996 Tage alt.
Geboren am 15.09.1613 in Paris
Gestorben am 17.03.1680 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♍ Jungfrau
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The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.
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The test of extraordinary merit is to see those who envy it the most, yet are obliged to praise it.
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The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others.
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
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The world more frequently recompenses the appearance of merit, than merit itself.
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There are different kinds of curiosity; one of interest, which causes us to learn that which would be useful to us; and the other of pride, which springs from a desire to know that of which others are ignorant.
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There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be thought so.
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There are good marriages, but no delightful ones.
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There are no chances so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage; and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.
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There are some bad qualities which make great talents.
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There is a kind of revolution of so general a character that it changes the tastes as well as the fortunes of the world.
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There is an eloquent silence: it serves sometimes to approve, sometimes to condemn; there is a mocking silence; there is a respectful silence.
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There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are one thousand imitations.
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There is scarcely a single man sufficiently aware to know all the evil he does.
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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
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There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.
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There's no use being young without being beautiful, and no use being beautiful without being young.
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Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.