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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld, Francois:

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We are held to our duty by laziness and timidity, but often our virtue gets all the credit.
 
[Pendant que la paresse et la timidité nous retiennent dans notre devoir, notre vertu en a souvent tout l’honneur.]
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WIST · Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶169 (1665-1678) [tr. Tancock (1959)] - La Rochefoucauld, Francois | WIST QuotationsWe are held to our duty by laziness and timidity, but often our virtue gets all the credit.   [Pendant que la paresse et la timidité nous retiennent dans notre devoir, notre vertu en a souvent tout l’honneur.] Appeared in the 1st ed. (1665) as: While laziness and timidity alone…
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