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“ ”All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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
Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken.
Where love is, no disguise can hide it for long; where it is not, none can simulate it