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Few Persons Quotes by Francois La Rochefoucauld
- Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure, which is useful, to praise which deceives them
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- Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel and manifest… — Robert Collier
- Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits. — Alfred de Musset
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- The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a… — Gilbert Murray
- Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the… — Unknown Author
- The civil power must not be subservient to the advantage of any one individual, or of some few persons; inasmuch as it… — Pope Leo XII
- There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. — Augustus Hare