La Rochefoucauld §laroch_061: The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions t...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_061) · external_aligned
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortunes. ["Still to ourselves in every place consigned Our own felicity we make or find." Goldsmith, Traveller, 431.]
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