Reflections

Get the maxims of François de La Rochefoucauld at your fingertips.

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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