WIST Quotations Has Moved!A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Perfect valour is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.[La parfaite valeur est de faire sans témoins ce qu’on serait capable de faire devant tout le monde.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶216 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]
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Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶216 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)] - La Rochefoucauld, Francois | WIST Quotations
Perfect valour is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching. [La parfaite valeur est de faire sans témoins ce qu'on serait capable de faire devant tout le monde.] (Appeared in the 1st (1665) ed. as the similar: [La pure valeur, s’il y en avoit,…
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