Few things are needed to make a wise man happy nothing can make a fool content.
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The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Too great refinement is false delicacy, And true delicacy is solid refinement.
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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
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If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
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He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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