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Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the agitation of their hearts.”

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French author known for his wit and moral maxims. His works delve deeply into the flaws of human nature and the hypocrisy of society. more

Book:Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century

Source: Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,: As Well for the Champion Or Open Country, as for the Woodland Or Several; Together with A Book of Huswifery. Being a Calendar of Rural and Domestic Economy, for Every Month in the Year; and Exhibiting a Picture of the Agriculture, Customs, and Manners of England, in the Sixteenth Century

“A person might be an expert in any field of knowledge or a master of many material skills and accomplishments. But without inner cleanliness his brain is a desert waste.”

Persons Might Brain Fields Materials Masters Skills Waste Desert Accomplishment Experts Cleanliness

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.”

Humans Spirituality Conditions Aspect Realms Purity Holiness Human Condition Cleanliness Refinement Aspects Of Life

Author:Abdu'l-Bahá

“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

Source: All the Works of Epictetus: Which are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments

“Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.”

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Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“Circumstances alter cases.”

Cases Circumstances

Author:Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.”

Wells Circumstances

Author:Plutarch

Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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