“There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.”

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

Il arrive quelquefois des accidents dans la vie d'où il faut être un peu fou pour se bien tirer.
Maxim 310.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

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French author of maxims and memoirs 1613–1680

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