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We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.
We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.
Approximate author period: c. 1646 AD · renaissance
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- Francis, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
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- Approximate author period: c. 1646 AD · renaissance
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- Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1871 English edition) (1871 AD)
Main maxims, complete printed maxim 85; J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell translation; Simpson Low, Son, and Marston,188FleetStreet,1871 (printed imprint spelling retained)
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