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Chance Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
- In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.
- He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it…
- All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.
- Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to…
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