A quotation from La Bruyere, Jean de:

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The first thing that happens to men once they have had to give up any pleasure, whether for propriety’s sake, or from satiety, or for their health, is to condemn it in other people. Such behavior implies a sort of attachment to the very things one has just renounced: we want nobody else to enjoy t…
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https://wist.info/la-bruyere-jean-de/20740/

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