There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skilful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt.
François de La Rochefoucauld
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- Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims; Maxim 59; Translation: J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell; Matched to public-domain source edition; wording preserved with whitespace normalized.
- Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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