Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Exercise
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To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
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It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.
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Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.
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What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
- Born: September 15, 1613
- Died: March 17, 1680
- Occupation: Author