A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
The weak cannot be sincere.
[Les personnes foibles ne peuvent être sincères.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶316 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)]
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶316 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)] | WIST Quotations
The weak cannot be sincere. [Les personnes foibles ne peuvent être sincères.] First included in the 3rd (1671) edition. In manuscript it read, "Les gens foibles ne sauroient avoir de sincérité." (Source (French)).WIST Quotations
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