“It is less dangerous to treat most men badly than to treat them too well.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld, book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Il n'est pas si dangereux de faire du mal à la plupart des hommes que de leur faire trop de bien.
Maxim 238.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

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French author of maxims and memoirs 1613–1680

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