The Maxims: J. W. Willis Bund, M.A. LL.B and J. Hain Friswell

"Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world." —La Rouchefoucauld Till you come to know mankind by your experience, I know no thing nor no man that can in the meantime bring you so well acquainted with them as Le Duc de la Rochefoucauld. His little book of maxims, which I would advise you to look into for some moments at least every day of your life, is, I fear, too like and too exact a picture of human nature. I own it seems to degrade it, but yet my experience does not convince me that it degrades it unjustly. —Lord Chesterfield As Rochefoucauld his maxims drew From Nature— I believe them true. They argue no corrupted mind in him; the fault is in mankind. —Jonathan Swift