We must needs have the power of uniting contrarieties:
love of virtue with indifference to public opinion,
taste for work with indifference to glory,
attention to health with indifference to life.
Nicolas de Chamfort (1741–1794) France
Translated by William G. Hutchison
Source: The Cynic’s Breviary: The Maxims and Anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort. Translated by William G. Hutchison, Elkin Mathews, 1902
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