La Rochefoucauld §laroch_347: We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us.
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_347) · external_aligned
We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree with us. ["That was excellently observed, say I, when I read an author when his opinion agrees with mine."--Swift, Thoughts On Various Subjects.]
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