A great soul is above injury, injustice, sadness and mockery; and it would be invulnerable, if it didn't suffer by compassion.
Une grande âme est au-dessus de l'injure, de l'injustice, de la douleur, de la moquerie; et elle seroit invulnérable, si elle ne souffroit par la compassion.
- La Bruyère, On men, aphorism 81
The Great Hall of the old University of Orléans, the university La Bruyère attended when young
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