Collected Maxims and Other Reflections (4, 2008) | Francoi de La Rochefoucauld,Francois de La Rochefoucauld,FranA§ois de La Rochefoucauld

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'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,…