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Rochefoucauld


"As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew
From Nature--I believe them true.
They argue no corrupted mind
In him; the fault is in mankind."--Swift.

"Les Maximes de la Rochefoucauld sont des proverbs des
gens d'esprit."--Montesquieu.

"Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."--Sir J.
Mackintosh.

"Translators should not work alone; for good ET PROPRIA VERBA
do not always occur to one mind."--Luther's TABLE TALK, iii.



Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims