La Rochefoucauld

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French writer of moralistic maxims (1613-1680)

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Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. Lytton Strachey

When a nice quote comes to mind, I always attribute it to Montesquieu, or to La Rochefoucauld. They've never complained. Indro Montanelli

In La Rochefoucauld, he identifies a tendency similar to stoicism in which "the honest person works his being in the manner of a sculptor who searches the liberation of the forms which are inside a block of marble, to extract the truth of that matter." Source: Internet

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