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Act Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.
- The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity.
- It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
- It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
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