Jean de La Bruyère: It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct…
It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.
In today’s wordsIt's easier to gain a thousand virtues than to correct a single fault.
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