The Rocket and The Bomb

[Mark Kohut]

Was not the translation MY INTERNET served me....

Very nice aphorism, of course. As with all such, the general 'truth' is not
an always-the-case-like-science, -like-fact,  truth...
It is why it is a superb aphorism.

from another great aphorist whose truths are largely true but no
universally so, of course.

II. Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

VIII. Sincere enthusiasm is the only orator who always persuades. It is
like an art the rules of which never fail; the simplest man with enthusiasm
persuades better than the most eloquent with none.

XIV. Men are not only subject to losing all recollection of kindnesses and
injuries done them, they even hate those to whom they are obliged and cease
to hate those who have harmed them. The effort of repaying the kindness and
avenging the evil seem to them a servitude to which they are unwilling to
submit.

XXX. If we had no faults, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing
those of others.

CCLXI. Flirtatiousness is fundamental to a woman's nature, but not all put
it into practice because some are restrained by fear or by good sense.

CDXI. There hardly exist faults which are not more pardonable than the
means by which one tries to hide them.

CDXXXIII. The truest mark of having been born with great qualities is to
have been born without envy.[8]
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld_(writer)#cite_note-8>

Referenced by Bernard Lonergan
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lonergan> in Insight, People
generally complain about their memory, but never about their judgment.

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 10:36 AM, Thomas Eckhardt <
thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de> wrote:

> The internet suggests: "To write a feuilleton is to curl locks on a bald
> head."
>
> Sounds like an adequate translation to me.
>
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