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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
The reason we are not often wholly possessed by a single vice, is that we are distracted by several.
[Ce qui nous empêche souvent de nous abandonner à un seul vice est que nous en avons plusieurs.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶195 (1665-1678) [pub. Donaldson (1783), ¶442]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
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