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Author: Fran^cois de La Rochefoucauld
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-05-08
Total Pages: 399
ISBN-13: 0199540004
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Published: 1903
Total Pages: 228
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: François duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Published: 1900
Total Pages: 194
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: François duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Published: 1749
Total Pages: 220
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-12-01
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0141939184
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre programmes, visiting cards, draft manuscripts and even bills ... Goethe was probably the last true ‘Renaissance Man’. Although employed as a Privy Councillor at the Duke of Weimar’s court, where he helped oversee major mining, road-building and irrigation projects, he also painted, directed plays, carried out research in anatomy, botany and optics – and still found time to produce masterpieces in every literary genre. His fourteen hundred Maxims and Reflections reveal some of his deepest thought on art, ethics, literature and natural science, but also his immediate reactions to books, chance encounters or his administrative work. Although variable in quality, the vast majority have a freshness and immediacy which vividly conjure up Goethe the man. They make an ideal introduction to one of the greatest of European writers.
Author: François duc de La Rochefoucauld
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Published: 1775
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Ferraiolo
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2007-06
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 059545092X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Cynical Maxims and Marginalia is a collection of cognitive projectiles. They pierce the reader's pretensions, illusions, and unexamined assumptions. They provide flashes of insight along with an occasional good laugh at mankind's expense. There is little effort here to prove any point, demonstrate any claim, or justify any supposition. Persuasion is of secondary interest. The primary intention is to incite, to puncture, and to awaken the reader from slumber. The maxim is the author's weapon of choice-a scattershot delivery system. The book lets fly in all directions, but takes particular aim at no one- or at everyone (which amounts to much the same thing). Careful argumentation has its place and value, but so does firing off a quiver full of flaming rhetorical arrows. These are haphazard shots loosed into the darkness. Take cover.
Author: La Rochefoucauld
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2006-10-06
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 0486451453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Often poetic, occasionally ironic, and frequently humorous, this collection of more than 500 thought-provoking revelations will also serve as a sourcebook for anyone who needs a quick quip.
Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-09-16
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781974634880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.
Author: François de La Rochefoucauld
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Published: 2003-01
Total Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 9780758150578
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first-ever French-English edition of La Rochefoucauld's Reflexions, ou sentences et maximes morales, long known in English simply as the Maxims. The translation, the first to appear in forty years, is completely new and aims -- unlike all previous versions -- at being as literal as possible. This involves, among other things, rendering the same word -- for example, amour-propre as self-love - as consistently throughout as good sense allows. This also means that the translators have made every effort to maintain La Rochefoucauld's word order. This allows the reader the best vantage point for viewing La Rochefoucauld's dramatic and paradoxical juxtapositions of words and ideas, juxtapositions of the utmost importance to understanding his thought. Despite the translation's concern with literalness, careful attention has been paid to the nuances of the literary character of the Maxims.
