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Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶216 (1665-1678) [tr. Davies (1669), ¶97] - La Rochefoucauld, Francois | WIST Quotations
Pure Valour, if there were any such thing, would consist in the doing of that without witnesses, which it were able to do, if all the world were to be spectators thereof. [La pure valeur (s'il y en avait) serait de faire sans témoins ce qu'on est capable de faire…