La Rochefoucauld §laroch_214: Valour in common soldiers is a perilous method of earning their living.
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_214) · external_aligned
Valour in common soldiers is a perilous method of earning their living. ["Men venture necks to gain a fortune, The soldier does it ev{'}ry day, (Eight to the week) for sixpence pay." {--Samuel Butler,} Hudibras, Part II., canto i., line 512.]
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