A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
True eloquence consists in saying all that need be said and no more.François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶250 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]
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True eloquence consists in saying all that need be said and no more. [La véritable éloquence consiste à dire tout ce qu’il faut, et à ne dire que ce qu’il faut.] Present in the 1st (1665) edition. In manuscript it begins "L’éloquence est de ne dire que ce qu’il faut…
#requirement : demand; requisition
- French: condition requise
- German: die Forderung
- Italian: requisito
- Portuguese: requerimento
- Spanish: requerimiento
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#requirement : demand; requisition
- French: condition requise
- German: die Forderung
- Italian: requisito
- Portuguese: requerimento
- Spanish: requerimiento
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