A card from a free library — ask anything, no account, works offline. Every card carries its source.
La Rochefoucauld 230: Nothing is so infectious as example, and we never do great good or evil witho...
larochefoucauld maxims
Nothing is so infectious as example, and we never do great good or evil without producing the like. We imitate good actions by emulation, and bad ones by the evil of our nature, which shame imprisons until example liberates.
source
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_230
card id
card_n_e763c87a0fe9
adjoining cards
- same section → La Rochefoucauld 016: This clemency of which they make a merit, arises oftentimes from vanity, some...
- same section → La Rochefoucauld 097: We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters:...
- on the shelf of → The classics — the great books, kept whole — a member of the classics shelf in the keeping
Is this card incomplete? Tell the library — it will call out for more ↗