Welcome to my Rochefoucauld pages!
There is now a version of the
original Maxims in English on this site, via
Moral Maxims
and a file with my own
aphoristic comments to selected maxims.
The present second edition of
2009 differs from the previous first one (that dates back to
1997) in that there now is also an English version of
Rochefoucauld's maxims, and not just my reactions to some of his
aphorisms.
The English version is derived from
the version at
Gutenberg.org (this is the link I used), which was translated by
Friswell and Bund, but my version is not identical with it,
since I have removed the translators' comments and quotations from
Rochefoucauld's text, and also mostly from my comments, although I
have retained a few, because they are to the point.
In
Rochefoucauld's text and in my
comments you will find an underlined
star as *
that (when blue or red) will lead you to my comment on the maxim or to
a comment by the translators, and similarly in my comments from the
comment back to the original at the place of the aphorism.
Finally, I should remark that (1) the
edition I wrote my comments to in fact is that in the Penguin
Classics, which is not the one I use as
Rochefoucauld's text; (2) my
comments are almost wholly the same as in the first edition; (3) you
can also read my comments instead of Rochefoucauld, and use the links
provided to get to his text, instead of the other way around; and you
find my brief appraisal of Rochefoucald's text at
the end of his text.
I wish you pleasurable and
instructive reading and computing!