La Rochefoucauld §laroch_073: We may find women who have never indulged in an intrigue, but it is rare to f...
Source: François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) (laroch_073) · external_aligned
We may find women who have never indulged in an intrigue, but it is rare to find those who have intrigued but once. ["Yet there are some, they say, who have had None}; But those who have, ne'er end with only one}." {--Lord Byron, }Don Juan, {Canto} iii., stanza 4.]
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