Francois VI, Duc De La Rochefoucauld, le Prince de Marcillac (1613-1680), was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs, as well as an example of the accomplished 17th-century nobleman.

This famed work by a noted French author of the Renaissance era, seventeenth-century nobleman François de La Rochefoucauld, offers hundreds of brief, brutally honest observations of humankind and its self-serving nature.

Reflections Or Sentences And Moral Maxims: Translated From The Editions Of 1678 And 1827 With Introduction, Notes, And Some Account Of The Author And His Times.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.