What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.

— François de La Rochefoucauld Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665)

Ce qui nous donne tant d’aigreur contre ceux qui nous font des finesses, c’est qu’ils croient être plus habiles que nous.

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