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Only experience or example can rationally determine which way the heart should incline. Now experience is not an advantage that it is open to everyon… - Antoine François Prévost
" "Only experience or example can rationally determine which way the heart should incline. Now experience is not an advantage that it is open to everyone to acquire, since it depends on the various situations in which, by chance, we find ourselves. For many people, then, this leaves only example that can offer any guidance as to how they should exercise virtue.
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About Antoine François Prévost
Antoine-François Prévost d'Exiles (April 1 1697 – November 25 1763), also known as the Abbé Prévost, was a French novelist, historian and journalist. His best-known story, L'Histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, has formed the basis of several operas, most notably Puccini's Manon Lescaut.
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Antoine François Prévost d'Exiles
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Abbé Prévost
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l'abbé Prévost
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Abbe Prevost
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Antoine-François, Abbé Prévost d’Exiles
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One cannot reflect for long on moral precepts without being astonished at seeing them, at one and the same time, revered and neglected, and without wondering what could be the reason for this vagary of the human heart, whereby it clings to principles of goodness and perfection from which it deviates in practice.
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