Duc de Persigny

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    Complete courage and absolute cowardice are extremes that very few men fall into. The vast middle space contains all the intermediate kinds and degrees of courage; and these differ as much from one another as men’s faces or their humors do.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)