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La Rochefoucauld 216: Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the wo...
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Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the world. ["It is said of untrue valours that some men's valours are in the eyes of them that look on."--Bacon, Advancement Of Learning{, (1605), Book I, Section II, paragraph 5}.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_216
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