What we term virtues are often but a mass of various actions and diverse interests, which fortune or our own industry manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
François de La Rochefoucauld
–All the Brothers were Valiant,
And all the Sisters, Virtuous…
—inscription on the tomb of the Duchess of Newcastle in Westminster Abbey [1673]