La Rochefoucauld §laroch_025: We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_025) · external_aligned
We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune. ["Prosperity do{th} best discover vice, but adversity do{th} best discover virtue."--Lord Bacon, Essays{, (1625), "Of Adversity"}.] {The quotation wrongly had "does" for "doth".}
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