Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

Opening of the book

Reflections;

or

Sentences and

Moral Maxims

By

Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld,

Prince de Marsillac.

Translated from the Editions of 1678 and 1827 with introduction, notes, and some account of the author and his times.

By

J. W. Willis Bund, M.A. LL.B and J. Hain Friswell

Simpson Low, Son, and Marston, 188, Fleet Street. 1871.

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(e.g. labour instead of labor, criticise instead of criticize, etc.); the translators' comments are in square brackets [...] as they

are in the text; footnotes are indicated by * and appear immediately following the passage containing the note (in the text they appear at the bottom of the page); and, finally, corrections and addenda are in curly brackets {...}.}

ROCHEFOUCAULD

"As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From Nature—I believe them true. They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind."—Swift.

"Les Maximes de la Rochefoucauld sont des proverbs des gens d'esprit."—Montesquieu.

"Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."—Sir J.

Mackintosh.

"Translators should not work alone; for good Et Propria

Verba do not always occur to one mind."—Luther's Table

Talk, iii.

Preface (translator's)

Introduction (translator's)

Reflections and Moral Maxims

First Supplement

Second Supplement

Third Supplement

Reflections on Various Subjects

Index

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