Ebook: Collected maxims and other reflections
- Tags: Maxims. Maxims French -- History and criticism. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French. Maxims French.
- Series: Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: New York, Oxford
- Language: English, French
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This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucauld's writings ever published in English, and includes the first complete translation of the Miscellaneous Reflections. A table of alternative maxim numbers and an index of topics help the reader to locate any maxim quickly. - ;'Our virtues are, most often, only vices in disguise.'. Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflatteringRead more...
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Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd analyses of human behaviour have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle,Read more...
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