La Rochefoucauld §laroch_220: Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.

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Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_220) · external_aligned

Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. ["Vanity bids all her sons be brave and all her daughters chaste and courteous. But why do we need her instruction?"--Sterne, Sermons.]

Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)

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