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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 Volt
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
En god sentens er for hård for tidens tand og fortæres ikke af årtusinderne, selv om den tjener enhver tid til næring: Således er den det store paradoks i litteraturen, det uforgængelige midt i det vekslende, spisen, der altid forbliver værdsat, ligesom s
Originally published in 1945, this book contains the French text of the 'Maximes' of François de la Rochefoucauld, which were first published anonymously in 1665. La Rochefoucauld himself added to the text many times during his life, and the versi