August 9, 2007

Item of the Day: Rochefoucault’s Maxims (1749)

Full Title: Moral Maxims: By the Duke de la Roche Foucault. Translated from the French. With notes. London: Printed for A. Millar, opposite Katharine Street, in the Strand, MDCCXLIX.
DECEIT
 XC.
We can’t bear to be deceived by our Enemies, and betrayed by our Friends; yet are often content to be so served by ourselves.
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XCI.
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