272.--Nothing should so humiliate men who have deserved great praise, … — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims — François de La Rochefoucauld

272.--Nothing should so humiliate men who have deserved great praise, as the care they have taken to acquire it by the smallest means.

Place: ¶432
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