num_pages: 400
description: 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 Réflexions 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 favoritethemes, such as self-love, vice and virtue, love and jealousy, friendship and self-interest, passion and pride.
language: French
title: Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
titlecomplete: Collected Maxims and Other Reflections
genres: Classics, France, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Literature, 17th Century, French Literature, Essays, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 3896
publisher: Oxford University Press