Men don’t so much blush for their Crimes, as for their Weaknesses and Vanity.
[Les hommes rougissent moins de leurs crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanité.]
Jean de La Bruyère (1645-1696) French essayist, moralist
The Characters [Les Caractères], _ch. 4 “Of the Heart _[Du Coeur],” § 74 (4.74) (1688) [Bullord ed. (1696)]
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