The Maxims (Bilingual Edition: French Text, with a Revised English Translation)

François de la Rochefoucauld

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Of all the French epigrammatic writers, La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) is at once the most widely known and the most distinguished. Voltaire said: "One of the works that most largely contributed to form the taste of the [French] nation, and to diffuse…