Maxims of La Rochefoucauld
Author | : François duc de La Rochefoucauld |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Maxims |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : François duc de La Rochefoucauld |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Maxims |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Fran^cois de La Rochefoucauld |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2008-05-08 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0199540004 |
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.
Author | : François de La Rochefoucauld |
Publisher | : BoD - Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2022-02-14 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 2957404826 |
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 a spirit of justice and precision, is the collection of maxims by François, duc de La Rochefoucauld; though there is scarcely more than one truth running through the book-that 'self-love is the motive of everything'-yet, this thought is presented under so many varied aspects that it is nearly always striking." And Lord Chesterfield, in his letters to his son: "Till you come to know mankind by your own experience, I know no thing nor no man that can in the meantime bring you so well acquainted with them as La Rochefoucauld: his little book of Maxims, which I would advise you to look into, for some moments at least, every day of your life, is, I fear, too like and too exact a picture of human nature. I own it seems to degrade it, but yet my experience does not convince me that it degrades it unjustly." The Maxims were first published in 1665, under the title "Reflections or sentences and moral maxims"; and the edition of 1678, the fifth, from which the text has been used for the present translation, was the last revised by the author and published in his lifetime (with maxims numbered 1 to 504). Maxims which appeared in previous editions and were suppressed by La Rochefoucauld can be found in the second part, entitled "Maxims withdrawn by the author", here numbered 505 to 583. The French original of this bilingual edition was reviewed by Philippe Renaud. The English translation, originally by John William Willis-Bund and James Hain Friswell, has been thoroughly revised by Rebecca Hazell and Philippe Renaud.
Author | : Vivien Thweatt |
Publisher | : Librairie Droz |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : French literature |
ISBN | : 9782600035767 |
Author | : François duc de La Rochefoucauld |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 1796 |
Genre | : Chapbooks |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thomas M. Lennon |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2019-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 900440449X |
How much of our own self- interest should we be willing to sacrifice for love of another? The Quietists answered, all of it, even the salvation of our own soul. Opposing them were the Jansenists, including Arnauld, who saw self-interest as inescapable. The debate swept across French society in the 17th century, with Bossuet and Fénelon on opposite sides, and was multi- dimensional, with political and ecclesiastical intrigue, charges of heresy, and many shenanigans. Initially theological, the debate’s basis lay in differing philosophical concepts of freewill, with both sides claiming support from Descartes’s views. The debate thus highlights interpretation of the Cartesians, especially Malebranche, a prominent participant in it. Nevertheless, this is the first book on the debate in English.
Author | : |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004400060 |
For the first time in scholarship, this essay collection interprets modernity through the literary micro-genres of the aphorism, the epigram, the maxim, and the fragment. Situating Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde as forerunners of modern aphoristic culture, the collection analyses the relationship between aphoristic consciousness and literary modernism in the expanded purview of the long twentieth century, through the work of a wide range of authors, including Samuel Beckett, Max Beerbohm, Jorge Luis Borges, Katherine Mansfield, and Stevie Smith. From the romantic fragment to the tweet, Aphoristic Modernity offers a compelling exploration of the short form's pervasive presence both as a standalone artefact and as part of a larger textual and cultural matrix.
Author | : Henry McKean |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2014-11-27 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1107053218 |
A leading authority sheds light on a variety of interesting topics in which probability theory plays a key role.
Author | : Tom Schnabel |
Publisher | : Universe Publishing(NY) |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Public Radio personality Tom Schnabel spotlights giants of the global genre like the late Sufi singer Nusrat Feteh Ali Kahn and this year's Grammy winner Milton Nascimiento, making "Rhythm Planet" both an antidote to the latest flavor of pop and an affirmation of music's power. 125 illustrations, 25 in color.
Author | : Charles E. Larmore |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2010-12-15 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0226468879 |
Charles Larmore develops a theory of the self that challenges the widespread view that the we always know our own thoughts.