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La Rochefoucauld 271: Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.
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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."]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_271
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