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Sunday, May 06, 2012
We need greater virtues
In one of his famous maxims, the great 17th Century French aphorist Francois de la Rochefoucauld said this:
"Il faut de plus grandes vertus pour soutenir la bonne fortune que la mauvaise."
Translated this means: "We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune."
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