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Il n'y a que les personnes qui ont de la fermeté qui puissent avoir une véritable douceur. - François de La Rochefoucauld
" "Il n'y a que les personnes qui ont de la fermeté qui puissent avoir une véritable douceur.
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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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The scorn for riches displayed by the philosophers was a secret desire to recompense their own merit for the injustice of Fortune by scorning those very benefits she had denied them; it was a private way of remaining unsullied by poverty, a devious path towards the high respect they could not command by wealth
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