Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
There are insults which we have to condone if we would not compromise our honour.
—Reflexions and Maxims, No. 102
Vauvenargues
Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
Marquis de Vauvenargues
These couple hundred aphorisms and dozen character studies keep alive the clear wit of this 18th-century Frenchman.
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TRANSLATED BY ELIZABETH LEE
WESTMINSTER: ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & Co., 1903
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011
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CharactersDialogue