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A book who exposes the hypocrisy of mankind in an unashamed way, and in a very very easy way to read. If you want to add 20 years of life experience to you current age, this is the book to read. It is, however, interesting how a book written almost years ago can still summarize so well the behavior of mankind still today/5().

Originally published inthis book contains the French text of the 'Maximes' of François de la Rochefoucauld, which were first published anonymously in La Rochefoucauld himself added to the text many times during his life, and the version published here contains of his maxims, along with the prefaces to the editions of and /5(11).

This is a reproduction of a book published before This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages Napoleon I. (Emperor of the French): : Books. Like all books of maxims this is better not to read cover to cover but in spurts, and of course, to read more than once.

Other great books of maxims are Publius Syrus and La Rochefoucauld. Read more. 5 people found this helpful. Helpful. Comment Report abuse. Ram Mohan Rao/5(8). Les Maximes dissèquent la nature humaine avec une précision chirurgicale. Loin des faux semblants, les sentiments sont mis à nu sans complaisance.

Toutes les vérités ne sont pas bonnes à dire, dit le dicton, mais La Rochefoucauld n'en a que faire: il épingle nos défauts de pensée en pensée. Et l'on s'aperçoit que les hommes /5(16). Maximes consists of hundreds of two- or three-line sentences in which La Rochefoucauld muses about honor, fate, friendship, love, and the human tendency for self-delusion.

His experience with the royal court during the Fronde influenced his Maximes immensely. He saw firsthand the conniving and social duplicity that went on amongst members of. REFLECTIONS; OR, SENTENCES AND MORAL MAXIMS Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.

[This epigraph which is the key to the system of La Rochefoucauld, is found in another form as No. of the maxims of the first edition,it is omitted from the 2nd and 3rd, and reappears for the first time in the 4th edition, inas at present, at the head of the.

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The show is in every corner of. This is the first-ever French-English edition of La Rochefoucauld's Reflexions, ou sentences et maximes morales, long known in English simply as the Maxims. The translation, the first to appear in forty years, is completely new and aims -- unlike all previous versions -- at being as literal as possible.

This involves, among other things, rendering the same word -- for example, 5/5(1). The maxims of conversation. Paul Grice was an eminent philosopher and linguist, who researched the ways people derive meaning from language. In his book, “Studies in the Way of Words“, Grice outlined four main maxims of conversation, which describe how people communicate when they want to make sure that they’re properly understood by others.

: Maximes et Reflections Diverses (Folio Ser No. ) (French Edition) (): La Rochefoucauld, Jean Lafond: Books/5(15). Print book: FrenchView all editions and formats: Rating: (not yet rated) 0 with reviews - Be the first. Subjects: Épicure. -- Maximes. Morale. Épicuriens.

View all. François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa d(ə) la ʁɔʃfuko]; 15 September – 17 March ) was a noted French author of maxims and is said [by whom?] 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, Born: 15 SeptemberParis, Kingdom of France. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg. Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims by François duc de La Rochefoucauld - Free Ebook Project Gutenberg. Additional Physical Format: Online version: La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, Maximes.

[Paris]: Impr. nationale éditions, © (OCoLC) Maximes by François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stuart D. Warner, Stéphane Douard, Jean Rohou; 73 editions; First published in ; Subjects: Maxims, French Maxims, Early works toTranslations into English, French Didactic literature, Accessible book, Literary reference works, Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries, Fiction, Philosophy, French, European - French.

Additional Physical Format: Online version: La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, Maximes. Paris, Bordas, (OCoLC) Document Type. Nicolas Chamfort has 84 books on Goodreads with ratings.

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