La Rochefoucauld §laroch_227: Lucky people are bad hands at correcting their faults; they always believe th...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_227) · external_aligned
Lucky people are bad hands at correcting their faults; they always believe that they are right when fortune backs up their vice or folly. ["The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence and merit."--Swift, Thoughts On Various Subjects]
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