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Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company. - François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
Attribution: François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 201 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).

Categories: Moralist, Vanity, Virtue, Writer

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