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  1. A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

    We only criticize ourselves in order to win the praise of others.
     
    [On ne se blâme que pour être loué.]

    François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
    Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶554 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶524]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

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