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• To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

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  Class, Vain, Shows

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• Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.

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  Speak, Reason

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.153

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• Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.

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  Powerful, Reason, Duty

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• When the truth offends no one it should come from our lips as naturally as the air we breathe.

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  Truth, Air, Lips

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• Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.

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  Calumny, Secure, Ought

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.154

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• None are rash when they are not seen by anybody.

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  Rashness

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• Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

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  May, Natural, Politeness

  duc de François La Rochefoucauld, François La Rochefoucauld (duc de), King of Poland Stanisław, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.178

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• There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!

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  Reputation, Persons, Greater

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.160

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• It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.

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  Party, Self, Suspicion

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.166

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• Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?

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  Agitation, Repose, Astonishing

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.164

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• In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

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  Believe, Men, Made

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.164

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• The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages.

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  Men, Religion, Corruption

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.153

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• The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

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  Taste, Irregularity, Occasions

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.158

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