- 1Epigraph
- 2Introduction
- 3A Biographical Memoir
- 4Preface
- 5I — Of Works of the Mind
- 6II — Of Personal Merit
- 7III — Of Women
- 8IV — Of the Affections
- 9V — Of Society and of Conversation
- 10VI — Of the Gifts of Fortune
- 11VII — Of the Town
- 12VIII — Of the Court
- 13IX — Of the Great
- 14X — Of the Sovereign and the State
- 15XI — Of Mankind
- 16XII — Of Opinions
- 17XIII — Of Fashion
- 18XIV — Of Certain Customs
- 19XV — Of the Pulpit
- 20XVI — Of Freethinkers
The Characters of Jean de La Bruyère
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