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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Maxims (Penguin Classics)

Literature & Fiction

La Rochefoucauld

Essays & Correspondence

Penguin Classics

After abandoning politics when he was about forty, François, 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: Everyone blames his memory, no one his judgment. Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. The more than 500 brief musings included here make for entertaining and thought-provoking reading. This invaluable collection will also serve as a sourcebook for writers, speakers, or anyone who needs a quick quip.

La Rochefoucauld Maxims (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)

Literary

Dover Publications

Maximes Suivies Des Reflexions Diverses

Garnier Freres

The Moral Maxims and Reflections of the Duke De La Rochefoucauld: With an Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint)

Self-Help

Motivational

Forgotten Books

François 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 Champs, at a time when the royal court was vacillating between aiding the nobility and threatening it, he was considered an exemplar of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman. Until 1650, he bore the title of Prince de Marcillac. Examples of Maxims: I. Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers. VIII. Sincere enthusiasm is the only orator who always persuades. It is like an art the rules of which never fail; the simplest man with enthusiasm persuades better than the most eloquent with none. XIV. Men are not only subject to losing all recollection of kindnesses and injuries done them, they even hate those to whom they are obliged and cease to hate those who have harmed them. The effort of repaying the kindness and avenging the evil seem to them a servitude to which they are unwilling to submit. XXX. If we had no faults, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. CCLXI. Flirtatiousness is fundamental to a woman's nature, but not all put it into practice because some are restrained by fear or by good sense. CDXI. There hardly exist faults which are not more pardonable than the means by which one tries to hide them.

Maxims

Contemporary

Independently published

Maxims (The William of Moerbeke Translation Series) (English and French Edition)

Reference

St. Augustines Press

La Rochefoucauld Et Vauvenargues, Deux Moralistes (French Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

HACHETTE LIVRE-BNF

Suivi de Réflexions diverses et Maximes de Madame de Sablé

Maximes et Reflections Diverses (Folio Ser No. 728) (French Edition)

Genre Fiction

Gallimard]

Maximes et Reflexions (French Edition)

Flammarion Edition

Short Stories & Anthologies

French and European Publications Inc

Maximes

J'Ai Lu

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