La Rochefoucauld §laroch_350: Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they thin...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_350) · external_aligned
Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is because they think themselves more clever than we are. ["I could pardon all his (Louis XI.'s) deceit, but I cannot forgive his supposing me capable of the gross folly of being duped by his professions."--Sir Walter Scott, Quentin Durward.]
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