François de La Rochefoucauld Quote

What we term virtues are often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune or our own industry manage to arrange; and it is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.


Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)


What we term virtues are often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune or our own industry manage to arrange; and it is...

What we term virtues are often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune or our own industry manage to arrange; and it is...

What we term virtues are often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune or our own industry manage to arrange; and it is...

What we term virtues are often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune or our own industry manage to arrange; and it is...