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Daily Aphorism

10/9/2012

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One must have great resources in ones spirit and heart to prefer sincerity in others even when it hurts, or to be sincere without giving offense. Few people have enough good will to suffer the truth and to say it.

Il faut de grandes ressources dans l'esprit et dans le cœur pour goûter la sincérité lorsqu'elle blesse, ou pour la pratiquer sans qu'elle offense. Peu de gens ont assez de fonds pour souffrir la vérité et pour la dire.

- Vauvenargues, Maxims and Thoughts, aphorism 221


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Jean-François Marmontel, a French historian, writer, and member of the Encyclopediste movement. He was one of Vauvenargues' few friends when he came to live in Paris.
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