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What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
Approximate author period: c. 1646 AD · renaissance
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- Francis, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
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- Approximate author period: c. 1646 AD · renaissance
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- Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1871 English edition) (1871 AD)
Main maxims, complete printed maxim 1; J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell translation; Simpson Low, Son, and Marston,188FleetStreet,1871 (printed imprint spelling retained)
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