Collected maxims and other reflections /

Collected maxims and other reflections /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, 1613-1680.
Uniform title:	Maximes. English
Imprint:	Oxford, U.K. ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Description:	xliii, 354 pages ; 20 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford world's classics Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)
Subject:	Maxims. Maxims.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6325245

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Other authors / contributors:	Blackmore, E. H. Blackmore, A. M. Giguère, Francine.
ISBN:	9780192806499 0192806491 9780199540006 0199540004
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages xl-xli) and index. Translated from the French.
Summary:	Deceptively brief and insidiously easy to read, La Rochefoucauld's shrewd, unflattering analyses of human behavior have influenced writers, thinkers, and public figures as various as Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle. This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucauld's writings ever published in English, and includes the first complete translation of the Reflexions diverses (Miscellaneous Reflections). This edition includes an excellent introduction that surveys La Rochefoucauld's life, the genesis of his work, its form and content, and its influence, as well as comprehensive explanatory notes. A table of alternative maxim numbers and an extensive and invaluable index of topics help the reader to locate any maxim quickly and to appreciate the full range of La Rochefoucauld's thought on any of his favorite themes, such as self-love, vice and virtue, love and jealousy, friendship and self-interest, passion and pride. - Publisher.

Table of Contents:

Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales / moral reflections or sententiae and maxims : fifth edition, 1678 (V)
Maxims finally withdrawn / La Rochefoucauld
Maxims never published / La Rochefoucauld
Reflexions diverses / miscellaneous reflections
Addenda to the Reflexions diverses
Portrait de M.R.D. fait par lui-meme / portrait of monsieur R
d, by himself
App. Maxims of doubtful authenticity.