Modesty gives to merit what shadows give to figures in a painting: it gives them strength and relief.
La modestie est au mérite ce que les ombres sont aux figures dans un tableau: elle lui donne de la force et du relief.
- La Bruyère, On Personal Merit, aphorism 17
The vestibule d'honneur in the Château de Chantilly, where La Bruyère was tutor to the grandson of the Prince of Condé and to one of the natural children of Louis XIV, Mlle de Nantes.
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