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Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales.

Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales.

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[La Rochefoucauld, François (1613-1680)].
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Genève, Éditions Pierre Cailler, 1947. 8:o. 112, (4) pp. Brown full morocco, gilt title to spine, gilt border on both covers. Very good copy.

500 kr

Collection Les trésors de la littérature française 4. In 1664 he wrote the work Réflections ou Sentences et Maximes Morales (Maximer), a collection of over 500 short, expressive and cynical reflections on life and society. He was a pessimist who argued with deadly elegance that man's most virtuous actions are actually done out of pure self-interest and vanity, even if the person performing the action is unaware of the hidden motive for it.

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