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" Collected Maxims and Other Reflections : "
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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BL
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722070
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b541779
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Collected Maxims and Other Reflections : : With Parallel French Text.\ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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Oxford: Oxford University Press, UK, 2007
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Oxford world's classics.
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(399 pages).
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0191517496
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: 9780191517495
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This is the fullest collection of La Rochefoucauld's writings ever published in English, and includes the first complete translation of the Miscellaneous Reflections. A table of alternative maxim numbers and an index of topics help the reader to locate any maxim quickly. - ;'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 Voltaire, Proust, de Gaulle, Nietzsche, and Conan Doyle. The author gave himself the.
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PQ1815.F736 2007
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A M Blackmore
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E H Blackmore
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Francine Gigure
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Francois De La Rochefoucauld
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