Roland-Michel Barrin marquis de La Galissonnière

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Quotes:

"As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before."

"You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed."

"From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race."

"There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work."

"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."

"Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment."

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