La Rochefoucauld §laroch_405: We reach quite inexperienced the different stages of life, and often, in spit...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_405) · external_aligned
We reach quite inexperienced the different stages of life, and often, in spite of the number of our years, we lack experience. ["To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed."-- Coleridge.]
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