Famous Quotes | What we take for virtue is often...

What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste. - François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld
Attribution: François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680), French writer, moralist. Maximes, no. 1 (1678).

Categories: Chastity, Courage, Moralist, Virtue, Writer

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