La Rochefoucauld §laroch_453: In great matters we should not try so much to create opportunities as to util...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_453) · external_aligned
In great matters we should not try so much to create opportunities as to utilise those that offer themselves. [Yet Lord Bacon says "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."--Essays, {(1625), "Of Ceremonies and Respects"}]
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