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Daily Aphorism

10/8/2012

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"Even in my youth," said M..., "I liked to flirt, I didn't much like to seduce, and I always hated to corrupt."

 « Dans ma jeunesse même, me disait M…, j’aimais à intéresser, j’aimais assez peu à séduire, et j’ai toujours détesté de corrompre. »


- Chamfort, Characters and Anecdotes, aphorism 957

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Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, notorious for being a libertine at the court of his brother, Louis XIV.
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