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“ ”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.
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
Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.
Almost always we are bored by people to whom we ourselves are boring.
We keep our first lover for a long time — if we do not get a second.