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ROCHEFOUCAULD
"As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From Nature—I believe them true. They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind."—Swift.
"Les Maximes de la Rochefoucauld sont des proverbs des gens d'esprit."—Montesquieu.
"Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."—Sir J. Mackintosh.
"Translators should not work alone; for good Et Propria Verba do not always occur to one mind."—Luther's Table Talk, iii.