Collected Maxims and Other Reflections

These are excellent guidance. Forget life coaches. Study these words of wisdom. Book very well set out and edited.

Charlie Munger says of making friends with eminent dead to learn from them. If there are people like that, Rochefoucauld will be leading the pack of such people. Reflecting on the maxims not just reading it, maximizes the benefit of aphorisms.

Reliable English translation with facing French text. Excellent scholarly introduction which discusses the question: la Rochefoucauld, libertine or Augustinian / Jansenist? The revisions and additions of later editions included. A helpful index. One of the better editions for English-speaking readers.

Review of "Collected Maxims and Other Reflections" by La Rochefoucuald (translated with an introduction and notes by E.H. and A.M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere). Francois de La Rochefoucauld was a member of a prominent French aristocratic family born in Paris in 1613. He participated in military life and supported the interests of the French aristocracy. His Collected Maxims were revised and the authorized version appeared in 1678. La Rochefoucauld died in Paris in 1680. Many further maxims and essays (now known as the "Miscellaneous Reflections") were published posthumously from his manuscripts. This Oxford World's Classics edition of Collected Maxims provides the fullest collection of his writings and the first complete translation of the "Miscellaneous Reflections." In addition the text includes an in-depth introduction, text notes, bibliography chronology, explanatory notes, and an index of topics. La Rochefoucauld's themes visited within his Maxims are self-love, vice and virtue, love and jealousy, friendship and self-interest, and passion and pride (among others). Collected Maxims provides a window into the thought of 17th Century French Court as relevant today as when initially penned. Five stars without hesitation!

Thought provoking