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François de La Rochefoucauld

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Biography - François de La Rochefoucauld:

French moralist, author of maxims and memoirs.
Born: 1613 - Died: 1680
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
France

The attachment or indifference which philosophers have shown to life is only the style of their self love, about which we can no more dispute than of that of the palate or of the choice of colours.


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Maxim 46


Quote source: Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
L’attachement ou l’indifférence que les philosophes avaient pour la vie n’était qu’un goût de leur amour-propre, dont on ne doit non plus disputer que du goût de la langue ou du choix des couleurs.




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There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists, nor feign it where it does not.





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Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.





Few people know how to be old.





We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.












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