A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
We easily forget our faults when they are known only to ourselves.
[Nous oublions aisément nos fautes lorsqu’elles ne sont sues que de nous.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶196 (1665-1678) [tr. Stevens (1939)]
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶196 (1665-1678) [tr. Stevens (1939)] | WIST Quotations
We easily forget our faults when they are known only to ourselves. [Nous oublions aisément nos fautes lorsqu’elles ne sont sues que de nous.WIST Quotations
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