Quote of François de La Rochefoucauld - Self love is more cunning than...
Biography - François de La Rochefoucauld:
French moralist, author of maxims and memoirs.
Born: 1613 - Died: 1680
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
Born: 1613 - Died: 1680
Period:
17th century
Place of birth: France
Self love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
Note
Maxim 4
Quote source: Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims
Translation
(French, German)
See also...
Quotes about self-love:
Whatever discoveries have been made in the region of self-love, there remain many unexplored territories there.
The attachment or indifference which philosophers have shown to life is only the style of their self love, about which we can no more dispute than of that of the palate or of the choice of colours.
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