Jan 8, 2009
However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.- François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld Attribution: François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 365 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).
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