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Clever Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular
- A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.
- There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.
- A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
- The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so.
- There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
- There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are…
- Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
- It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
- No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
- The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
- There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
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