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La Rochefoucauld 486: More persons exist without self-love than without envy.
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More persons exist without self-love than without envy. ["I do not believe that there is a human creature in his senses arrived at maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion (envy) in good earnest, and yet I never met with any who dared own he was guilty of it, but in jest."--Mandeville: Fable Of The Bees; Remark N.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_486
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