La Rochefoucauld
Americannoun
noun
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The French aphorist François de La Rochefoucauld remarked that “hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.”
Such a pensée fits with the French moralist tradition of Montaigne, Pascal and La Rochefoucauld, yet Baudelaire always regarded Edgar Allan Poe, whom he translated, as his spiritual brother.
From Washington Post
According to a 17th Century maxim by the Duc de La Rochefoucauld, “Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.”
From Washington Times
He can also be as worldly-wise as La Rochefoucauld: “It is very hard for a man, however modest, to grasp the possibility that a woman who has once loved him may love him no longer.”
From Washington Post
We don’t ask which of La Rochefoucauld’s friends made him jealous—the thought lands independent of its circumstance.
From The New Yorker
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