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Make Us Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- The qualities we have, make us so ridiculous as those which we affect.
- The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
- The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.
- Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
- All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
- We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.
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