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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-09-04 · 16:53 UTC

Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person?

[Pourquoi faut-il que nous ayons assez de mémoire pour retenir jusqu’aux moindres particularités de ce qui nous est arrivé, et que nous n’en ayons pas assez pour nous souvenir combien de fois nous les avons contées à une même personne?]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶313 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

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Maki 🔻 💚PRO❤️ @[email protected] · 2026-08-06 · 07:23 UTC

Kevin owns a truck.

Story found elsewhere. Looks to be either a twitter or bluesky post originally but I don't feel like trying to browse through either to look up a link.

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