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There is scarcely a single man sufficiently aware to know all the evil he does. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Epigram

There is scarcely a single man sufficiently aware to know all the evil he does.

In the original French

Il n'y a guère d'homme assez habile pour connaître tout le mal qu'il fait.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
1678
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Provenance
Current citation
La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Original citation
La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.

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