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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.
[Il y a des reproches qui louent, et des louanges qui médisent.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶148 (1665-1678) [tr. Bund/Friswell (1871)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #appreciation #backhandedcompliment #censure #commendation #compliment #condemnation #damnwithfaintpraise #insult #praise #reproach
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.
[Il y a des reproches qui louent, et des louanges qui médisent.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶148 (1665-1678) [tr. Bund/Friswell (1871)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #appreciation #backhandedcompliment #censure #commendation #compliment #condemnation #damnwithfaintpraise #insult #praise #reproach
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.
[Il y a des reproches qui louent, et des louanges qui médisent.]François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶148 (1665-1678) [tr. Bund/Friswell (1871)]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #appreciation #backhandedcompliment #censure #commendation #compliment #condemnation #damnwithfaintpraise #insult #praise #reproach