La Rochefoucauld §laroch_256: In all professions we affect a part and an appearance to seem what we wish to...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_256) · external_aligned
In all professions we affect a part and an appearance to seem what we wish to be. Thus the world is merely composed of actors. ["All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players."--Shakespeare, As You Like It{, Act II, Scene VII, Jaques}. "Life is no more than a dramatic scene, in which the hero should preserve his consistency to the last."--Junius.]
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