A card from a free library — ask anything, no account, works offline. Every card carries its source.
La Rochefoucauld 214: Valour in common soldiers is a perilous method of earning their living.
larochefoucauld maxims
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.]
source
François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_214
card id
card_n_d50827849044
adjoining cards
- same section → La Rochefoucauld 012: Whatever care we take to conceal our passions under the appearances of piety ...
- same section → La Rochefoucauld 215: Perfect bravery and sheer cowardice are two extremes rarely found.
- on the shelf of → The classics — the great books, kept whole — a member of the classics shelf in the keeping
Is this card incomplete? Tell the library — it will call out for more ↗