A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
We are revealed to others in times of crisis, and even more so to ourselves.
[Les occasions nous font connoître aux autres, et encore plus à nous-mêmes.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶345 (1665–1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]
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