La Rochefoucauld §laroch_216: Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the wo...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_216) · external_aligned
Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before all the world. ["It is said of untrue valours that some men's valours are in the eyes of them that look on."--Bacon, Advancement Of Learning{, (1605), Book I, Section II, paragraph 5}.]
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