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La Rochefoucauld 287: Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matt...
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Fertility of mind does not furnish us with so many resources on the same matter, as the lack of intelligence makes us hesitate at each thing our imagination presents, and hinders us from at first discerning which is the best.
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_287
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