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La Rochefoucauld 268: We credit judges with the meanest motives, and yet we desire our reputation a...
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We credit judges with the meanest motives, and yet we desire our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all, either from their jealousy or pre-occupation or want of intelligence, opposed to us--and yet 'tis only to make these men decide in our favour that we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_268
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