La Rochefoucauld §laroch_440: The cause why the majority of women are so little given to friendship is, tha...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_440) · external_aligned
The cause why the majority of women are so little given to friendship is, that it is insipid after having felt love. ["Those who have experienced a great passion neglect friendship, and those who have united themselves to friendship have nought to do with love."--La Bruyere. Du Coeur.]
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