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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶148 (1665-1678) [tr. Bund/Friswell (1871)]
Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
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Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach. [Il y a des reproches qui louent, et des louanges qui médisent.] Present in the 1st ed. (1665). Also see Pope (1724). (Source (French)). Other translations: There are some who commend when they make account to reproach; and others whose praises are detractions. [tr.…
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