WIST QuotationsA quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Self-interest will set all sorts of virtues and vices in motion.[L’intérêt met en œuvre toutes sortes de vertus et de vices.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶253 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois - Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶253 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)] | WIST Quotations
Self-interest will set all sorts of virtues and vices in motion. [L’intérêt met en œuvre toutes sortes de vertus et de vices.] Present in the 1st (1665) edition. In the manuscript form it reads "L’intérêt donne toutes sortes de vertus et de vices." See also ¶¶ 171, 305. (Source (French)).…