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    “That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men’s observation, and sometimes from our own too.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “Funeral pomp is more for the vanity of the living than for the honor of the dead.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)