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La Rochefoucauld 014: Men are not only prone to forget benefits and injuries; they even hate those ...
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Men are not only prone to forget benefits and injuries; they even hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury or of recompensing a benefit seems a slavery to which they are unwilling to submit.
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_014
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