We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those who find us boring.

[Nous pardonnons souvent à ceux qui nous ennuient, mais nous ne pouvons pardonner à ceux que nous ennuyons.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Maxims], #304 (1665-1678) [tr. L. Tancock (1959)]

 
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