A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
The self-same pride which makes us condemn the vices from which we imagine ourselves to be free also leads us to despise the virtues we do not possess.
[Le même orgueil qui nous fait blâmer les défauts dont nous nous croyons exempts, nous porte à mépriser les bonnes qualités que nous n’avons pas.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶462 (1665–1678) [tr. Stevens (1939)]
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