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“ ”What we call liberality is often but the vanity of giving, which we like more than that we give away.
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
Les femmes peuvent moins surmonter leur coquetterie que leur passion.
La vérité ne fait pas tant de bien dans le monde que ses apparences y font de mal.
V. — Everybody finds that to abuse in another which he finds worthy of abuse in himself. (1665, No. 33.)