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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
We refuse praise from a desire to be praised twice.
[Le refus des louanges est un désir d’être loué deux fois.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶149 (1665-1678) [tr. Kronenberger (1959)]Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
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