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La Rochefoucauld 081: We can love nothing but what agrees with us, and we can only follow our taste...
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We can love nothing but what agrees with us, and we can only follow our taste or our pleasure when we prefer our friends to ourselves; nevertheless it is only by that preference that friendship can be true and perfect.
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_081
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