A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices.
[Quand les vices nous quittent, nous nous flattons de la créance que c’est nous qui les quittons.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶192 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶192 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)] | WIST Quotations
When our vices desert us, we flatter ourselves that we are deserting our vices. [Quand les vices nous quittent, nous nous flattons de la créance que c’est nous qui les quittons.] Present in the 1st (1665) edition.WIST Quotations
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