La Rochefoucauld §laroch_426: The charm of novelty and old custom, however opposite to each other, equally ...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_426) · external_aligned
The charm of novelty and old custom, however opposite to each other, equally blind us to the faults of our friends. ["Two things the most opposite blind us equally, custom and novelty."-La Bruyere, Des Judgements.]
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