But doctors are lucky: the sun shines on their successes and the earth hides their failures.
[Mais ils ont cet heur, que le soleil esclaire leur succez, & la terre cache leur faute.]
Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 37 (2.37), “Of the Resemblance of Children to their Fathers [De la ressemblance des enfans aux peres]” (1579–1580) [tr. Screech (1987)]
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Montaigne, Michel de - Essays, Book 2, ch. 37 (2.37), "Of the Resemblance of Children to their Fathers [De la ressemblance des enfans aux peres]" (1579–1580) [tr. Screech (1987)] | WIST Quotations
But doctors are lucky: the sun shines on their successes and the earth hides their failures. [Mais ils ont cet heur, que le soleil esclaire leur succez, & la terre cache leur faute.] The phrase is not original to Montaigne, but he popularized it.WIST Quotations
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