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Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
François duc de La Rochefoucauld and James Hain Friswell
Our virtues, he suspected, are mostly vices in disguise. La Rochefoucauld's maxims strip the self-interest out of every noble pose in a lancing sentence or two apiece, translated from the 1678 and 1827 editions with notes and an account of the duke and his dangerous times. The most quotable cynic France ever produced. Flinch, then keep reading.
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20 chapters
- 1Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims
- 2Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marsillac.
- 3Translated 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.
- 4ROCHEFOUCAULD
- 5Translator's Preface.
- 6Translator's Introduction
- 7REFLECTIONS; OR, SENTENCES AND MORAL MAXIMS
- 8Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
- 9THE FIRST SUPPLEMENT
- 10SECOND SUPPLEMENT.
- 11REFLECTIONS, EXTRACTED FROM MS. LETTERS IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY.*
- 12THIRD SUPPLEMENT
- 13REFLECTIONS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, BY THE DUKE DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
- 14I. On Confidence.
- 15II. On Difference of Character.
- 16III. On Taste.
- 17IV. On Society.
- 18V. On Conversation.
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