A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp.
[Les esprits médiocres condamnent d’ordinaire tout ce qui passé leur portée.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶375 (1665–1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶375]
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶375 (1665–1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶375] | WIST Quotations
It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp. [Les esprits médiocres condamnent d’ordinaire tout ce qui passé leur portée.] This adage first appeared in the 5th (1678) edition. See also ¶265. (Source (French)).WIST Quotations