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1 day ago · A number of Nietzsche’s psychological observations on the social dynamics of praise show a high degree of similarity with a series of earlier observations on the same topic by Francois de la Rochefoucauld. See, e.g., la Rochefoucauld, Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, trans. A.H. Blackmore and F. Giguere (Oxford: Oxford University Press ...
Sep 3, 2024 · Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld — ‘Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.’.
Aug 27, 2024 · — François de La Rochefoucauld English translation: There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand different copies. This quote comes from a collection of Maxims by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, a French writer and moralist who lived in the 17th century.
Deaths. 22 February – Catherine Monvoisin, French sorceress (b. c. 1607) 14 March – René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631) 17 March – François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (b. 1613) 23 March – Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615) Marie Meurdrac, French chemist and alchemist (b. 1610)
3 days ago · Avec la voix de ma grand-mère qui ouvre les volets. Encore une belle journée” (Bachelard Citation 1961 , 17; Bouraoui Citation 2000 , 127). The home of her maternal great-grandmother possesses a cavernous, exotic quality in all its mysteriousness that can likewise be connected to Bachelard’s attention to intimate, interior spaces of the ...
Sep 4, 2024 · L’edizione critica dei Mémoires di La Rochefoucauld di Bruno Tribout è preceduta da una lunga introduzione di ben 278 pagine che ripercorre con grande erudizione la genesi dell’opera, cominciata alla fine della Fronda e conclusasi nel 1680 con la morte dell’autore.
4 days ago · Professor of Geography, University of Sussex, Brighton, England. Author of Germany and others. Conseiller d'État, a judicial rank in the Council of State, Paris. Director, Civil and Military Cabinet, Ministry of Defense, Government of France, 1981–85.
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