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La Rochefoucauld 021: Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt fo...
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Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes. [See this thought elaborated in maxim 504.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_021
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