# Maxims

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- Authors: [François de La Rochefoucauld](https://www.bookquiver.com/francois-de-la-rochefoucauld)
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 978-01-4044-095-9
- Pages: 128
- Published: 1981-06-25
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.