“It is harder to hide the feelings we have than to feign the ones we do not have.”

Maxim 56 from the posthumously published 1693 edition of the Maximes.
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Il est plus difficile de dissimuler les sentiments que l'on a que de feindre ceux que l'on n'a pas.

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French author of maxims and memoirs 1613–1680

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