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Maxims, by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxims. by François de La Rochefoucauld () translated by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell () edited by Peter Saint-Andre. Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or .  · 2 by François duc de La Rochefoucauld; Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld. Download This eBook. Format Url Size; Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims Language: English: LoC Class: PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese: Subject: Maxims Author: La Rochefoucauld, François duc de,  · The Maxims of Francois de La Rochefoucauld. No one deserves to be praised for kindness if he does not have the strength to be bad; every other form of kindness is most often merely laziness or lack of willpower. A man is truly honorable if he is willing to be perpetually exposed to the scrutiny of honorable people.

François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa d(ə) la ʁɔʃfuko]; 15 September - 17 March ) was a noted French moralist and author of maxims and bltadwin.ru is part of the literary movement of classicism and best known for his maxims. Although he only officially published his Memoirs and his Maxims, his literary production is dense. 17th century nobleman and militaire François de la Rochefoucauld upset the powerful (including Cardinal Richelieu), spent time in the Bastille prison, and had famous friendships with the likes of la marquise de Sévigné, but is most famous today for his maxims. De la Rochefoucauld's Maxims A maxim is a short, impactful statement that highlights a fundamental. François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims value If there is a pure love, exempt from the mixture of our other passions, it is that which is concealed at the bottom of the heart and of which even ourselves are ignorant.

Voltaire says of it, in the words above quoted, "One of the works which most contributed to form the taste of the (French) nation, and to give it a spirit of justness and precision, was the collection of the maxims of Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld, though there is scarcely more than one truth running through the book—that ‘self-love is the motive of everything'—yet this thought is presented under so many varied aspects that it is nearly always striking. Maxims, by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxims. by François de La Rochefoucauld () translated by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell () edited by Peter Saint-Andre. Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and divers interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange; and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste. Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld. Download.