“Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill we have done as a fear of the ill that may befall us.”

— François de La Rochefoucauld , book Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Notre repentir n'est pas tant un regret du mal que nous avons fait, qu'une crainte de celui qui nous en peut arriver.
Maxim 180.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

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Notre repentir n'est pas tant un regret du mal que nous avons fait, qu'une crainte de celui qui nous en peut arriver.

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French author of maxims and memoirs 1613–1680

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