“The scoundrel has his good qualities, and the good man his weaknesses.”
Le scélérat a ses vertus, comme l'honnête homme a ses faiblesses.
Letter 32: Madame de Volanges to Madame la Présidente Tourvel. Trans. P.W.K. Stone (1961). http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Liaisons_dangereuses_-_Lettre_32
Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
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Le scélérat a ses vertus, comme l'honnête homme a ses faiblesses.
Les Liaisons dangereuses, 1782, Madame de Volanges
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French novelist, official and army general 1741–1803Related quotes
II – The General and His Troops.
"Generals and Generalship" (1939)
Goethe.
1820s, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912), Ch. XVI : The Original Sources of the Knowledge of God, p. 237.
“The worth of a wife is a man’s good fortune;
His jewels are his good children.”
Verse VI.10
Tirukkural
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Publications, The Shah's Story (1980), On world leaders and statesmen
“A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.”
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
“When the good man yields his breath
(For the good man never dies).”
The Wanderer of Switzerland, Part v. Compare: "Say not that the good die" (translated from original Greek), Callimachus, Epigram x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
