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Matter Quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.
- No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.
- No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer…
- Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.
- Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
- They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
- Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
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