La Rochefoucauld §laroch_412: Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to r...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_412) · external_aligned
Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character. ["This is hardly a period at which the most irregular character may not be redeemed. The mistakes of one sin find a retreat in patriotism, those of the other in devotion." --Junius, Letter To The King.]
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