Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
by François duc de La Rochefoucauld
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The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.
Chapters (21)
- Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
- Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marsillac.
- Translated from the Editions of 1678 and 1827 with introduction, notes, and some account of the author and his times. By J. W. Willis Bund, M.A. LL.B and J. Hain Friswell Simpson Low, Son, and Marston, 188, Fleet Street. 1871.
- ROCHEFOUCAULD
- Translator's Preface.
- Translator's Introduction
- REFLECTIONS; OR, SENTENCES AND MORAL MAXIMS
- Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
- THE FIRST SUPPLEMENT
- SECOND SUPPLEMENT.
- REFLECTIONS, EXTRACTED FROM MS. LETTERS IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY.*
- THIRD SUPPLEMENT
- REFLECTIONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, BY THE DUKE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
- I. On Confidence.
- II. On Difference of Character.
- III. On Taste.
- IV. On Society.
- V. On Conversation.
- VI. Falsehood.
- VII. On Air and Manner.
- INDEX
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