La Rochefoucauld §laroch_271: Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_271) · external_aligned
Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason. ["The best of life is but intoxication."--{Lord Byron, } Don Juan{, Canto II, stanza 179}. In the 1st Edition, 1665, the maxim finishes with--"it is the fever of health, the folly of reason."]
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