Famous Quotes | Very few people are acquainted...

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it. - 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. 25 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).

Categories: Death, Moralist, Writer

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