Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
Maxim 496.
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that is not exactly displeasing.[796:4]
Footnotes
[794:2] This epigraph, which is the key to the system of La Rochefoucauld, is found in another form as No. 179 of the Maxims of the first edition, 1665; it is omitted from the second and third, and reappears for the first time in the fourth edition at the head of the Reflections.—Aime Martin.
[794:3] See Goldsmith, page [401].
[795:1] See Shelley, page [566].
[796:1] See Walpole, page [304].
[796:2] "That was excellently observed," say I when I read a passage in another where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, then I pronounce him to be mistaken.—Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects.