It's from a fictionalized autobiography of Hadrian: Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar. The quote is “Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.”
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It's from a fictionalized autobiography of Hadrian: Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar. The quote is “Our great mistake is to try to exact from each person virtues which he does not possess, and to neglect the cultivation of those which he has.”
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