Counsels and Maxims
Publisher: Scholarly Pr
Published: June 1981
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780686719120
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.