Perhaps we need, for worldly success, virtues which make us loved and vices which make us feared.

[Peut-être, pour les succès du monde, faut-il des vertus qui fassent aimer, et des défauts qui fassent craindre.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet

Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 9 “De la Sagesse, de la Vertu, etc. [On Wisdom and Virtue],” ¶ 26 (1850 ed.) [tr. Collins (1928), ch. 8]
    (Source)

(Source (French)). Alternate translations:

Perhaps, for worldly success, we ought to have virtues that make us beloved, and faults that make us feared.
[tr. Lyttelton (1899), ch. 8, ¶ 21]