Counsels and Maxims
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Published: June 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781602063464
Subjects: Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present; History & Surveys - Modern; Philosophy / Modern; Philosophy
First sentence: If my object in these pages were to present a complete scheme of counsels and maxims for the guidance of life, I should have to repeat the numerous rules-some of them excellent-which have been drawn up by thinkers of all ages, from Theognis and Solomon[1] down to La Rochefoucauld; and, in so doing, I should inevitably entail upon the reader a vast amount of well-worn commonplace.