Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Maxims], #251 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)] - La Rochefoucauld, Francois

We try to make virtues out of the faults we have no wish to correct.

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Maxims], #251 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]

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