["The best of life is but intoxication."--{Lord Byron, } Don Juan{, Ca… — Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims — François de La Rochefoucauld

["The best of life is but intoxication."--{Lord Byron, } Don Juan{, Canto II, stanza 179}. In the 1st Edition, 1665, the maxim finishes with--"it is the fever of health, the folly of reason."]

Place: ¶431
License: Public domain · Source
The text is given as in the edition, unedited.

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