# Endnotes explained — The Counterfeiters

> Chapter companion for The Counterfeiters by André Gide.

## What happens

This chapter contains the endnotes for the novel, providing translations, explanations of puns, and references to French cultural and literary sources such as La Rochefoucauld.

## Key lines

> De toutes les passions, celle qui est la plus inconnue à nous-mêmes, c’est la paresse; elle est la plus ardente et la plus maligne de toutes, quoique sa violence soit insensible et que les dommages qu’elle cause soient très-cachés.

Of all passions, laziness is the most unknown to ourselves; it is the most ardent and malicious, though its violence is imperceptible and the damage it causes is very hidden.

_This is a quotation from La Rochefoucauld's maxims, reflecting on the hidden nature of laziness._

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