“We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.”

Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir la bonne fortune que la mauvaise.
Maxim 25.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

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Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir la bonne fortune que la mauvaise.

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)

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French author of maxims and memoirs 1613–1680

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