WIST Quotations moves again!A quotation from La Rochefoucauld, Francois:
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He who imagines he can do without the world, deceives himself much: but he who fancies the world cannot do without him, is under a far greater deception.
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Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶201 (1665-1678) [ed. Carvill (1835), ¶81] - La Rochefoucauld, Francois | WIST Quotations
He who imagines he can do without the world, deceives himself much: but he who fancies the world cannot do without him, is under a far greater deception. [Celui qui croit pouvoir trouver en soi-même de quoi se passer de tout le monde se trompe fort; mais celui qui…