Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. The full title of the text is reflections or aphorisms and moral maxims. Publication date 1797 topics maxims publisher calais printed for lepoittevinlacroix collection. Download or read maxims and moral reflections book by clicking button below to visit the book download website. He was also a soldier in the army of the king of france and the ultimate courtier. The common practice of cunning is a sign of small genius. There are some who never would have loved if they never had heard it spoken of. Like a refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice. Poetic, ironic, and frequently humorous, his wise observations can al. There are multiple format available for you to choose pdf, epub, doc. Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.
Hopefully they will give you a taste of his style, as well as insights on how to more deftly navigate a world that still remarkably resembles the machinations of a french royal court. He writes in the preface to the first edition that these reflections on human conduct will probably. Hopefully they will give you a taste of his style, as well as insights on how to more deftly navigate a world that still remarkably resembles the machinations of a. This edition includes the 504 maxims of the definitive, fifth edition of 1678, along with 7 other maxims which were either withdrawn from earlier editions or published posthumously. It is number 337 in his famous book of maxims, a work that stands beside other timeless classics of advice, reflection and epithets. In all aspects of life, we take on a part and an appearance to seem to be what we wish to beand thus the world is merely composed of actors. There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. Or, sentences and moral maxims our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. Free 14day trial to any nook magazine or newspaper.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Translated from the editions of 1678 and 1827 with introduction, notes, and some account of the author and his times. This work, known widely as simply the maxims, was his greatest accomplishment, and one of the defining works characterizing the thought of the french people as a whole during the latter 17th century. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. The maxims are littered with aphorisms on selflove such as in jealousy there is more selflove than love.
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