"It is safer to do most men..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.
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“The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him.”
“Man does not strive for happiness; only the Englishman does that.”