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La Rochefoucauld 297: Bodily temperaments have a common course and rule which imperceptibly affect ...
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Bodily temperaments have a common course and rule which imperceptibly affect our will. They advance in combination, and successively exercise a secret empire over us, so that, without our perceiving it, they become a great part of all our actions.
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_297
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