If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

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