La Rochefoucauld, François duc de
Collected Maxims and Other Reflections - Oxford Oxford University Press 2007 - xliii, 354p. - Oxford world's classics .
Includes Index
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, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle
9780199540006 (PB)
Maxims
French Literature
821.1 / LAR
Collected Maxims and Other Reflections - Oxford Oxford University Press 2007 - xliii, 354p. - Oxford world's classics .
Includes Index
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, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle
9780199540006 (PB)
Maxims
French Literature
821.1 / LAR