La Rochefoucauld §laroch_125: The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens tha...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_125) · external_aligned
The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another. ["With that low cunning which in fools supplies, And amply, too, the place of being wise." Churchill, Rosciad, 117.]
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