"Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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“Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.”
“Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully”
“The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.”
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