The greatest effort of friendship is not to show our faults to a friend, but to show him his own.
François de La Rochefoucauld
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- Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, maxim 410 — translated by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell (1871); Complete maxim410. Title page verifies both translators; surrounding maxims distinguish author text from bracketed translator commentary. Public domain.
- Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims, maxim 410 — translated by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell (1871)
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