La Rochefoucauld §laroch_012: Whatever care we take to conceal our passions under the appearances of piety ...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_012) · external_aligned
Whatever care we take to conceal our passions under the appearances of piety and honour, they are always to be seen through these veils. [The 1st edition, 1665, preserves the image perhaps better--"however we may conceal our passions under the veil, etc., there is always some place where they peep out."]
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