Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
In the original French
Les querelles ne dureraient pas longtemps, si le tort n'était que d'un côté.
Reflections · 1678
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.