Reflections

Get the maxims of François de La Rochefoucauld at your fingertips. La Rochefoucauld's thoughts on human nature concern, among a broad range of topics, pride and self-love, vanity, the passions and the emotions, love, sincerity, conversation, and politics. It is said that his world-view was clear-eyed and urbane, and that he neither condemned human conduct nor sentimentally celebrated it.

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