Word: rochefoucauld
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...esteem[s]"; that he "blurts out his opinion" and pronounces "unsolicited his views on college life and the motives which he thinks should guide it"; and that "he calls every one a toady who is not of his way of thinking." "Hatred toward the popular," "Ossip" quotes from La Rochefoucauld, "is nothing but love for popularity"; and he argues, in conclusion, that "the popularity which the independent man professes to scorn .... is the esteem, the respect, and the friendship of manly...
Popularity may result legitimately from truthfulness or illegitimately from insincerity. When La Rochefoucauld says that hatred towards the popular is nothing but love for popularity, if he means hatred of legitimate popularity, he is certainly right. But the popularity which results from insincerity men do not hate: they feel contempt...
...ROCHEFOUCAULD has said, in one of his maxims, that hatred towards the popular is nothing but love for popularity...