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Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle. This is the fullest collection of La... Read Full Overview

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.

After abandoning politics when he was about forty, Fran ois, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) began to write down his maxims, which were first published in book form in 1665. Poetic, ironic, and frequently humorous, his wise observations can also be blunt and brutally candid:... Read Full Overview

"Maxims and Reflections" is a collection of wisdom and advice by Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld, a noted French aristocrat, soldier and author. La Rochefoucauld was born in 1613 in Paris to a wealthy family and was well-educated in the traditional aristocratic studies of... Read Full Overview

The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld is a collection of aphorisms written by the French writer and moralist Fran�����ois de La Rochefoucauld. Originally published in 1665, the book contains over 500 brief reflections on human behavior, relationships,... Read Full Overview

Fran?ois VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. It is said that his world-view was clear-eyed and urbane, and that he neither condemned human conduct nor sentimentally celebrated it. Born in Paris on the Rue des Petits... Read Full Overview

The Maxims of La Rochefoucauld is a book that features a collection of aphorisms and reflections on human behavior, morality, and society by the French author Fran�����ois de La Rochefoucauld. Originally published in 1665, this book has been... Read Full Overview

"La Rochefoucauld knew almost everything about the human soul, so that practically every discovery one can make oneself, as one advances through life, has been anticipated by him and formulated in the briefest and most elegant phrases". - Aldous Huxley, Along the Road

"Reflexiones o sentencias y m ximas morales", de Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld. Fran ois de La Rochefoucauld fue un escritor, arist crata y militar franc s, conocido, sobre todo, por sus M ximas (1613-1680)

Originally published in 1945, this book contains the French text of the 'Maximes' of Fran ois de la Rochefoucauld, which were first published anonymously in 1665. La Rochefoucauld himself added to the text many times during his life, and the version published here contains 641... Read Full Overview

C nico y curtido cortesano franc s, gran seductor, De la Rochefoucault nos habla desde gloriosas pocas pasadas donde la vida en palacio brillaba con una intensidad nunca vista. Las "M ximas" que nos env a desde su siglo siguen siendo v lidas hoy en d a en cualquier cultura o... Read Full Overview

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.

The classic collection of wise phrases and advisory maxims by Rochefoucauld is published here in hardcover, complete with annotations. Originally written in the aftermath of decades spent in the lively and politically charged French court, Rochefoucauld had honed his wit and... Read Full Overview

La Rochefoucauld a eu l'id e de composer un grand nombre de maximes, et surtout de les publier, dans le salon de Madeleine de Sabl o a t lanc le genre litt raire des maximes. On trouve d'ailleurs une certaine proximit de pr occupations dans les maximes de celle-ci et... Read Full Overview