A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
We confess to small faults to create the impression that we have no great ones.
[Nous n’avouons de petits défauts que pour persuader que nous n’en avons pas de grands.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶327 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶327 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)] | WIST Quotations
We confess to small faults to create the impression that we have no great ones. [Nous n’avouons de petits défauts que pour persuader que nous n’en avons pas de grands.] First appeared in the 3rd (1671) edition. See also ¶126. (Source (French)).WIST Quotations
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