Men are oftener treacherous out of weakness than out of any formed design.

[L’on fait plus souvent des trahisons par faiblesse que par un dessein formé de trahir.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Maxims], #120 (1665-1678)

 
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