La Rochefoucauld §laroch_019: We have all sufficient strength to support the misfortunes of others.
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_019) · external_aligned
We have all sufficient strength to support the misfortunes of others. [The strongest example of this is the passage in Lucretius, lib. ii., line I:-- "Suave mari magno turbantibus aequora ventis E terra magnum alterius spectare laborem."]
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