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La Rochefoucauld 488: The calm or disturbance of our mind does not depend so much on what we regard...
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The calm or disturbance of our mind does not depend so much on what we regard as the more important things of life, as in a judicious or injudicious arrangement of the little things of daily occurrence.
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_488
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