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La Rochefoucauld 025: We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.
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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".}
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_025
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