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“ ”Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
About Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac (September 15 1613 – March 17 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs, as well as an example of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman.
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Additional quotes by Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld
We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves.
Comme la plus heureuse personne du monde est celle à qui peu de choses suffit, les grands et les ambitieux sont en ce point les plus misérables qu’il leur faut l’assemblage d’une infinité de biens pour les rendre heureux.
What the Italian poet has said of the virtue of women, namely that it is often simply the art of looking virtuous, can be applied to all our virtues