He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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