"La Rochefoucauld" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have great qualities," says La Rochefoucauld; "we should also have the management of them." No man can call himself educated until every voluntary ...
— How to Succeed - or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune • Orison Swett Marden
... observation of humanity with its entire accumulation of custom and prejudice; he is akin to Rousseau in a high-strung susceptibility to emotions, sentiments, and ideas; and he is tinged with a cynicism to which there is no closer parallel than in the maxims of La Rochefoucauld. The union of the philosopher, the enthusiast, and the man of the world is fairly unusual in literature, but in Hazlitt's case the union was not productive of any sharp contradictions. His common sense served as a ballast to ...
— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin
... whom were Etheredge, Edmund Arwaker, Henry Crisp, and Otway, including not a few from her own pen, 'Together with Reflections on Morality, or Seneca Unmasqued. Translated from the Maximes of the Duke de la Rochefoucauld', a number of clever ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn |
