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La Rochefoucauld 024: When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfor...
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When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men. [Both these maxims have been rewritten and made conciser by the author; the variations are not worth quoting.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_024
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