The head is ever the dupe of the heart. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The head is ever the dupe of the heart.
In the original French
L'esprit est toujours la dupe du coeur.
Reflections · 1678
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Original citation
La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.