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Daily Aphorism

10/28/2011

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A person cannot go far in friendship if he is not disposed to pardon others their little faults.

L'on ne peut aller loin dans l'amitié, si l'on n'est pas disposé à se pardonner les uns aux autres les petits défauts.


- La Bruyère, On Society and Conversation, aphorism 62


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The cabinet des Livres at the Château de Chantilly, where La Bruyère was tutor to the grandson of the Prince of Condé and to one of the natural children of Louis XIV, Mlle de Nantes.
 


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