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		<title>La Rochefoucauld, Francois -- Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶265 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶273]</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision. [La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.] This maxim was in the 1st (1665) edition (with the wording &#8220;&#8230; fait [&#8230;]]]></description>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We are stubborn because we are narrow-minded; it is hard to believe what is beyond the scope of our vision.</p>
<p><em>[La petitesse de l’esprit fait l’opiniâtreté, et nous ne croyons pas aisément ce qui est au delà de ce que nous voyons.]</em></p>
<br><b>François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld</b> (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble<br><i>Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]</i>, ¶265 (1665-1678) [tr. Heard (1917), ¶273] 
									<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;(<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Maxims_of_Le_Duc_de_La_Rochefoucauld/eq89AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=narrow" target="_blank">Source</a>)
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This maxim was in the 1st (1665) edition (with the wording <i>"... fait souvent l’opiniâtreté ...")</i><br><br>

(<a href="https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/%C5%92uvres_de_La_Rochefoucauld_-_T.1/R%C3%A9flexions_ou_sentences_et_maximes_morales#:~:text=La%20petitesse%20de%20l%E2%80%99esprit%20fait%20l%E2%80%99opini%C3%A2tret%C3%A9%5B430%5D%2C%20et%20nous%20ne%20croyons%20pas%20ais%C3%A9ment%20ce%20qui%20est%20au%20del%C3%A0%20de%20ce%20que%20nous%20voyons">Source (French)</a>). Other translations:<br><br>

<blockquote>It is from a Weakness and Littleness of Soul, that Men are Stiff and Positive in their Opinions; and we are very loth to Believe, what we are not able to Comprehend, and make out to Our Selves.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A49601.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext#:~:text=It%20is%20from%20a%20Weakness%20and%20Littleness%20of%20Soul%2C%20that%20Men%20are%20Stiff%20and%20Positive%20in%20their%20Opinions%3B%20and%20we%20are%20very%20loth%20to%20Believe%2C%20what%20we%20are%20not%20able%20to%20Com%E2%88%A3prehend%2C%20and%20make%20out%20to%20Our%20Selves.">Stanhope</a> (1694), ¶266]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy: we do not easily believe beyond what we see.<br>
[pub. <a href="https://archive.org/details/maximsandmoralr00rochgoog/page/n101/mode/2up?q=obstinacy">Donaldson</a> (1783), ¶319; ed. <a href="https://archive.org/details/maximsmoralrefle00larouoft/page/90/mode/2up">Lepoittevin-Lacroix</a> (1797), ¶248] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy; we believe no farther than we can see.<br>
[ed. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044019833292&view=1up&seq=120&skin=2021&q1=narrowness">Carvill</a> (1835), ¶458] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Narrowness of mind is the cause of obstinacy -- we do not easily believe what is beyond our sight.<br>
[ed. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433075829600&view=2up&seq=128&skin=2021&q1=narrowness">Gowens</a> (1851), ¶276]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>A narrow mind begets obstinacy, and we do not easily believe what we cannot see.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://gutenberg.org/files/9105/9105-h/9105-h.htm#:~:text=A%20narrow%20mind%20begets%20obstinacy%2C%20and%20we%20do%20not%20easily%20believe%20what%20we%20cannot%20see.">Bund/Friswell</a> (1871), ¶265] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Obstinacy of opinion is due to want of intelligence; we find it difficult to believe what is beyond our mental horizon.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Maxims_of_Fran%C3%A7ois_Duc_de_La_Rochef/MhZEAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22obstinacy%20of%20opinion%22">Stevens</a> (1939), ¶265]  </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>A small mind is a stubborn mind; it is hard to believe what lies beyond our field of vision.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/maximsofducdelar0000laro/page/84/mode/2up?q=265">FitzGibbon</a> (1957), ¶265] </blockquote><br>

<blockquote>A small mind becomes an obstinate mind: we find it hard to believe what lies beyond our understanding.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/maximsoflarochef00laro/page/82/mode/2up?q=265">Kronenberger</a> (1959), ¶265]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Obstinacy comes from limited intelligence, and we do not readily believe what is beyond our field of vision.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://archive.org/details/maxims0000laro/page/68/mode/2up?q=obstinacy">Tancock</a> (1959), ¶265]</blockquote><br>

<blockquote>Narrowness of mind begets obstinacy; and we do not easily believe what we cannot see ourselves.<br>
[tr. <a href="https://thomaswhichello.com/a-translation-of-reflections-or-sentences-and-moral-maxims-by-francois-de-la-rochefoucauld/#:~:text=Narrowness%C2%A0of%20mind%20begets%20obstinacy%3B%20and%20we%20do%C2%A0not%20easily%20believe%20what%20we%20cannot%C2%A0see%20ourselves.">Whichello</a> (2016) ¶]</blockquote><br>
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