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Reflexões Ou Sentenças E Máximas Morais
François de La Rochefoucauld e Rosa Freire d'Aguiar
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La marque d’un mérite extraordinaire est de voir que ceux qui l’envient le plus sont contraints de le louer.
François Duc De La Rochefoucauld • Maximes et Réflexions diverses (Folio classique t. 728)
FEW PEOPLE HAVE THE WISDOM TO PREFER THE CRITICISM THAT WOULD DO THEM GOOD, TO THE PRAISE THAT DECEIVES THEM. —François de La Rochefoucauld
50 Cent • The 50th Law
Collected Maxims and Other Reflections: With Parallel French Text (Oxford World's Classics)
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It is failings that show human nature, and merits that distinguish the individual; faults and misfortunes we all have in common; virtues belong to each one separately.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe • Maxims and Reflections
Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir la bonne fortune que la mauvaise.