La Rochefoucauld §laroch_220: Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste.
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_220) · external_aligned
Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste. ["Vanity bids all her sons be brave and all her daughters chaste and courteous. But why do we need her instruction?"--Sterne, Sermons.]
Witnesses (Deuteronomy 19:15)
- manuscript_tradition: First edition, Paris 1665 — Barbin imprint
- critical_edition: Pleiade edition — Truchet (Gallimard, 1964)
- translation: Tancock translation (Penguin Classics, 1959)
- republication: Project Gutenberg — Maxims
- republication: Internet Archive — multiple editions