What ignorance must be ours, and how slight is an experience of not above six or seven thousand years! |
—XII. Of Opinions |
Jean de La Bruyère |
The Characters of Jean de La Bruyère
Newly Rendered into English by Henri Van Laun
These 1,119 aphoristic writings provide a unique view of the height of 17th-century French culture.
Contents
NEW YORK: SCRIBNER & WELFORD, 1885
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011
I. | Of Works of the Mind | |
II. | Of Personal Merit | |
III. | Of Women | |
IV. | Of the Affections | |
V. | Of Society and of Conversation | |
VI. | Of the Gifts of Fortune | |
VII. | Of the Town | |
VIII. | Of the Court | |
IX. | Of the Great | |
X. | Of the Sovereign and the State | |
XI. | Of Mankind | |
XII. | Of Opinions | |
XIII. | Of Fashion | |
XIV. | Of Certain Customs | |
XV. | Of the Pulpit | |
XVI. | Of Freethinkers |