La Rochefoucauld §laroch_241: Flirtation is at the bottom of woman's nature, although all do not practise i...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_241) · external_aligned
Flirtation is at the bottom of woman's nature, although all do not practise it, some being restrained by fear, others by sense. ["By nature woman is a flirt, but her flirting changes both in the mode and object according to her opinions."-- Rousseau, Emile.]
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