By

Francois Duc De La Rochefoucauld,
Prince de Marsillac.

Translated from the Editions of 1678 and 1827 with introduction,
notes, and some account of the author and his times.

By

J. W. Willis Bund, M.A. LL.B
and
J. Hain Friswell

Simpson Low, Son, and Marston,
188, Fleet Street.
1871.



{Translators'} Preface.


Some apology must be made for an attempt
"to translate the untranslatable." Not-
withstanding there are no less than eight
English translations of La Rochefoucauld, hardly
any are readable, none are free from faults, and all
fail more or less to convey the author's meaning.