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THE MAXIMS

THE MAXIMSTHE MAXIMS

By The Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Read by David Rintoul
3 hours and 26 minutes

‘There’s no fool like an old fool’…’The world is full of pots calling kettles black’… ‘We can no more set a term to our passions than to our life’. These are just three of the aphorisms that made the collection of Maxims by François, Duc de la Rochefoucauld an enduring influence upon succeeding generations following their initial publication in 1665. Continue Reading →