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Daily Aphorism

10/23/2011

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 I love virtue if it isn't savage,  
 I love pleasure if it isn't weak-hearted, 
 I love life and I'm not afraid that it will end.   

 J'aime la vertu sans rudesse, 
 J'aime le plaisir sans mollesse,  
 J'aime la vie et n'en crains pas la fin.


- Saint-Évremond


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The Cour d'Honneur of Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where Saint-Évremond went to school.
 


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