Famous Quotes | Things often offer themselves to...

Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by much art and study. - 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. 102 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).

Categories: Ideas, Moralist, Spontaneity, Writer

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