La Rochefoucauld §laroch_174: It is far better to accustom our mind to bear the ills we have than to specul...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_174) · external_aligned
It is far better to accustom our mind to bear the ills we have than to speculate on those which may befall us. ["Rather bear th{ose} ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of." {--Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene I, Hamlet.}]
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: First edition, Paris 1665 — Barbin imprint
- critical_edition: Pleiade edition — Truchet (Gallimard, 1964)
- translation: Tancock translation (Penguin Classics, 1959)
- republication: Project Gutenberg — Maxims
- republication: Internet Archive — multiple editions