Moral maxims

Author: La Rochefoucauld
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Publish Date: 2003-01-01
Features: The Maxims contains 641 maxims, and its content is equivalent to a work of moral psychology. However, La Rochefoucauld did not intend to compile a collection of norms and precepts to tell people what they should or should not do. Instead, through the analysis and description of people's behavioral qualities, he revealed what people actually do and what they think. La Rochefoucauld believed that what people call virtue is often just a collection of certain behaviors and various interests. This idea forms the tone of his entire The Maxims.