• I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

    Stanisław I Leszczyński: I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.
    François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.156