TY - GEN AU - La Rochefoucauld, François duc de AU - Blackmore, E. H. (Translator) AU - Blackmore, A. M. (Translator) AU - Giguère, Francine. (Translator) TI - Collected Maxims and Other Reflections T2 - Oxford world's classics SN - 9780199540006 (PB) PY - 2007/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Maxims KW - French Literature N1 - Includes Index N2 - 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 ER -