Collected maxims and other reflections /:

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 ar...

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1. Verfasser: La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, 1613-1680
Weitere Verfasser: Blackmore, E. H., Blackmore, A. M., Giguère, Francine
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
French
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Schriftenreihe:Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
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Zusammenfassung: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 behaviour have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle. The author gave himself the.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xliii, 354 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages xl-xli) and index.
ISBN:9780191517495
0191517496

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