In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another. (François de La Rochefoucauld)

In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.

François de La Rochefoucauld

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