François de La Rochefoucauld, a french moralist and clever psychologist, is a little-known author among Brazilians. It is too bad, too bad! Because what La Rochefoucauld learned about human nature and confirmed in literary salons in 17th-century France can be perfectly seized in our time and confirmed at parties or social gatherings of any kind. More than that: reading Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims with sincerity can be a very valuable examination of self-awareness; I mean: read it no longer to judge others, but to learn about ourselves. It takes courage, I do not deny it, but if we take the first step, then we will see naked in aphorisms all our ambition, our misery, our motivations and our vile narrowness of spirit.
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