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• The Art of Worldly Wisdom, by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, trans. by Joseph Jacobs (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Reflections: or, Sentences and Moral Maxims (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1871), by François La Rochefoucauld, trans. by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell (Gutenberg text)
• Sparks From the Philosopher's Stone (London: D. Bogue, 1882), by James Lendall Basford
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• The Economy of Human Life (this edition attributed to Dodsley, with illustrations "by F. Howard, Harvey, Williams, etc."; London: John van Voorst, 1834), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by F. Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life, in Two Books (this edition attributed to Dodsley; London: Printed for Shirley, Neely, and Jones, et al., 1809), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by Frederick Mackenzie, William Marshall Craig, and Thomas Uwins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life: Translated From an Indian Manuscript, Written by An Ancient Bramin (work attributed variously to Dodsley and Chesterfield; London: Printed for T. Tegg, 1811), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life, Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin; To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Manner in Which the Said Manuscript Was Discovered (work attributed variously to Dodsley and Chesterfield; Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, 1807), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by Alexander Anderson (page images at Google)
• The Wisdom of Life, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di (multiple editions)
• The Wanderer (1932), by Kahlil Gibran (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Sayings of the Wise, or, Food for Thought: A Book of Moral Wisdom, Gathered From the Ancient Philosophers (London: E. Stock, 1908), by William Baldwin
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• A Treatise of Morall Phylosophie, Contayning the Sayings of the Wyse (London: E. Whitchurche, 1547)
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• Moralische Sprichwörter der Deutschen, welche die wichtigsten Maximen zu einer Weisen und tugendhaften Führung des Lebens enthalten. Deutschlands Söhnen und Töchtern bestimmt (H. Vogler, 1822), by Johann Karl August Rese (page images at HathiTrust)
• An analysis of the principal duties of social life, written in imitation of Rochefoucault, in a series of letters to a young gentleman, on his entrance into the world (Richardson and Urquhart [etc.], 1783), by John Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims: political, philosophical, and moral. (Printed and pub. for the author by A.H. Massina & Co., 1892), by Edward Counsel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dizionario di massime, pensieri e sentenze di sommi scrittori antichi et moderni di tutti i tempi e di tutte le nazioni. (A. Bietti e c., 1907), by Francesco Piscopo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aspirations of the world. A chain of opals. (Roberts Brothers, 1878), by Lydia Maria Child, Anna Loring Dresel, John Wilson and Son, and Roberts Brothers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pebbles, pearls and gems of the Orient (G. H. Ellis, 1882), by Charles D. B. Mills (page images at HathiTrust)
• La morale primitive; ou, Pensées, maximes, proverbes et sentences des orientaux (L. Passard, 1855), by Charles Paultre des Ormes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laconics (Printed for Thomas Hodgson ..., 1701), by Thomas Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of select aphorisms and maxims; with several historical observations: extracted from the most eminent authors. (Printed by E. Cave, 1748), by Charles Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pensées philosophiques, morales et politiques (La veuve Babin; [etc., etc.], 1768), by André Guillaume Contant d'Orville, King of Poland Stanisław I Leszczyński, and King of Prussia Frederick II (page images at HathiTrust)
• The maxims, experiences, and observations of Agogos (Otis, Broaders, & co., 1844), by Charles William Day (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introductio ad prudentiam; or, Directions, counsels, and cautions, tending to prudent management of affairs in common life. The second part. To which is added an appendix, concerning sincerity and deceit. The whole comp. (Printed for S. Austen, 1727), by Thomas Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sayings of Poor Richard; wit, wisdom, and humor of Benjamin Franklin in the proverbs and maxims of Poor Richard's almanacks for 1733 to 1758 (Edward T. Kelly company, 1923), by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Herbert Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thomas Fuller's The holy state and the profane state (Columbia university press, 1938), by Thomas Fuller and Maximilian Graff Walten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Palladis Tamia (1598) (New York, N.Y. : Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1938., 1938), by Francis Meres and Don Cameron Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Papyrus Insinger, les enseignements moraux d'un scribe égyptien du premier siècle après J.C. (P. Geuthner, 1926), by František Lexa (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treasury of English aphorisms (Constable, 1928), by Logan Pearsall Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The club; in a dialogue between father and son. (Imprinted by J. Johnson, St. James street, Clerkenwell], 1817), by James Puckle, John Thompson, John Thurston, and Edward Walmsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney; with remarks (Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1807), by Philip Sidney and Jane Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quelque six mille proverbes et aphorismes usuels empruntés à notre âge et aux siècles derniers (Julien, Lanier et cie, 1856), by Charles Cahier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire étymologique, historique, et anecdotique des proverbes et des locutions proverbiales de la langue française, en rapport avec des proverbes et des locutions proverbiales des autres langues (P. Bertrand; [etc., etc.], 1842), by P.-M. Quitard (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'homme de cour. (B. Grasset, 1924), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, André Rouveyre, and Abraham Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art of worldly wisdom. (Essential Books, 1947), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales and Otto Eisenschiml (page images at HathiTrust)
• A truthtelling manual and the art of worldly wisdom, being a collection of the aphorisms which appear in the works of Baltasar Gracian ... (C. C. Thomas, 1934), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales and Martin Fischer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of worldly wisdom. (The Macmillan company, 1943), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales and Joseph Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selectæ e profanis scriptoribus historiæ. Quibus admista sunt varia honeste vivendi præcepta, ex iisdem scriptoribus deprompta. (Printed for Benjamin Warner, no.171, Market street., 1819), by Jean Heuzet and James Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes et réflexions morales (Librairie de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1890), by François La Rochefoucauld and Émile Auguste Étienne Martin Deschanel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réflexions, sentences et maximes morales. (P. Jannet, 1853), by François La Rochefoucauld and Georges Duplessis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hien wun shoo. Chinese moral maxims, with a free and verbal translation; affording examples of the grammatical structure of the language. (J. Murray; [etc., etc.], 1823), by John Francis Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southey's Common-place book. (Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1849), by Robert Southey and John Wood Warter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims and moral reflections. (Printed for L. Davis, 1791), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indische sprüche (P. Reclam jun, 1882), by Ludwig Fritze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hécatomgraphie de Gilles Corrozet : libraire parisien (1540) chez Denys Janot (H. Champion, 1905), by Gilles Corrozet and Charles Oulmont (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le premier texte de La Rochefoucauld (Chez D. Jouaust, imprimeur, 1869), by François La Rochefoucauld and F. de Marescot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes de Mms de Sablé (1678) (Librairie des bibliophiles, 1870), by Madeleine de Souvré Sablé and D. Jouaust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquity; or The wise instructer. Being a collection of the most valuable admonitions and sentences, compendiously put together, from an infinite variety of the most celebrated Christian and heathen writers, divine, moral, historical, poetical, and political. (Printed for J. Brooks the editor, by S. Farley, 1770), by Jonathan Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbs, maxims and phrases of all ages, classified subjectively and arranged alphabetically ... (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1887), by Robert Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutsche rechtssprichwörter, unter mitwirkung der professoren J. C. Bluntschli und K. Maurer gesammelt und erklärt von Eduard Graf und Mathias Dietherr. Auf veranlassung und mit unterstützung Sr. Majestät des königs von Bayern, Maximilian ii. hrsg. durch die Historische commission bei der Königl, academie der wissenschaften. (Beck, 1864), by Eduard Graf, Konrad von Maurer, Johann Caspar Bluntschli, Mathias Dietherr, and Munich. Historische commission K. Akademie der wissenschaften (page images at HathiTrust)
• The courtiers manual oracle, or, The art of prudence (Printed by M. Flesher, for A. Swalle, 1685), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales (page images at HathiTrust)
• Courtier's oracle (Printed for Abel Swalle, and Tim. Childe ..., 1694), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Timothy Childe, and Abel Swall (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'homme de cour de Baltasar Gracian (F. Barbier, 1691), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales and Abraham Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enchiridion : containing Institutions--divine, contemplative, practical, moral, ethical, economical, political. (J.R. Smith, 1856), by Francis Quarles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Counsels and maxims (S. Sonnenschein & Co., 1890), by Arthur Schopenhauer and T. Bailey Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin; The journal of John Woolman; Fruits of solitude; with introduction and notes. (P. F. Collier, 1909), by Benjamin Franklin, William Penn, and John Woolman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts that inspire (Personal Help Pub. Co., 1905), by George H Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select sentences; or, Excellent passages, from eminent authors. To which are added, Mason's Select remains ... (Published by W. Barlas, No.6, Liberty-street. D. & G. Bruce, Printers, 1809), by John Mason and John Mason (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of worldly wisdom (Macmillan and co., 1892), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales and Joseph Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handorakel und Kunst der Weltklugheit (A. Kröner, 1929), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Heinrich Schmidt, and Arthur Schopenhauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New aspects of style in the Maxims of La Rochefoucauld : a dissertation (Catholic University of America Press, 1954), by Mary Francine Zeller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Maximes et portraits (évolution du genre) (P. Mellottée, 1925), by Léon Levrault (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• La philosophie de Georges Courteline. (E. Flammarion, 1922), by Georges Courteline (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Oeuvres morales de La Rochefoucauld. (H. Plon, editeur, Brière, bibliophile, 1869), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes et réflexions morales du duc de La Rochefoucauld (F. Didot, 1828), by François La Rochefoucauld and J. B. A. Suard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raccolta di massime filosofiche del duca della Rochefoucauld, nel loro originale, tr. litteralmente e parafrasate in poesia italiana. (Presso R. Prosperi, 1843), by François La Rochefoucauld and Giosafat Ristori (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maksymy i rozwazania moralne; przelożyl, wstȩpem i objaśnieniami zaopatrzyl Boy-Żeleński. (Krakowska spólka wydawniczej, 1925), by François La Rochefoucauld and Tadeusz Żeleński (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Anecdotes and biography : including many modern characters in the circles of fashionable and official life, selected from the portfolios of a distinguished literary and political character, lately deceased, alphabetically arranged (Printed by J.W. Myers for Crosby and Letterman and R. Pitkeathley, 1799), by Leman Thomas Rede (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction a la connoissance de l'esprit humain, suivi de reflexions et de maximes. (Chez A.-C. Briasson, 1747), by Vauvenargues, Joseph Seguy, and Nicolas-Charles-Joseph Trublet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The holy and profane states (Little, Brown and company, 1864), by Thomas Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• The marvellous wisdom and quaint conceits of Thomas Fuller, D. D. : being "The holy state" (Pickering and Chatto, 1893), by Thomas Fuller and Adelaide L. Gosset (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selectæ e profanis scriptoribus historiæ. Quibus admista sunt varia honeste vivendi præcepta, ex iisdem scriptoribus deprompta. (impensis C. Bathurst, J.F. and C. Rivington [etc.], 1784), by Jean Heuzet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selectæ e profanis scriptoribus historiæ. Quibus admista sunt varia honeste vivendi præcepta. ex iisdem scriptoribus deprompta. (impensis T. et W. Bradford, J. Conrad et co. [etc.], 1803), by Jean Heuzet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adagiorvm Des. Erasmi Roterodami Chiliades qvatvor, cvm sesquicenturia; magna cum diligentia, maturóque iudicio emendatae & expurgatae. Qvibus adiectae sunt Henrici Stephani Animadversiones, suis quaeque locis sparsim digestae ... His accesservnt, Appendix ad Chiliades Erasmi. Hadriani Iunii centuriae octo cum dimidia. Ioannis Alexandri Brassicani Prouerbiorum symmicta ... Ioan. Vlpii Adagiorum epitome. Gilberti Cognati Adagiorum sylloge. Specimen Adagiorum per Iunium, Cantherum & Giselinum. Melchioris Neipei Adagia. Ioannis Ferrerii Pedemontani Prouerbiorum collectanea. Adagia aliquot ab Ioanne fratre Laualensi obiter obseruata. Ex Caelio Rhodigino, Polydoro Virgilio ... [e.a.] (excudebat Petrvs Avbertvs, sumptibus Caldorianae societatis, 1612), by Desiderius Erasmus and Henri Estienne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ming yan da zi dian (Qun xue she, 1929), by Yiyun Hu and Xaotian Xu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Xi yang gu ge yan (Yi xue shu ju, 1923), by Yun Xu and Heizaburō Koshiyama (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. The journal of John Woolman. Fruits of solitude (P.F. Collier, 1909), by Benjamin Franklin, William Penn, and John Woolman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims and moral reflections of the Duke de La Rochefoucault, also Shakesperian aphorisms. (James Miller, 1872), by François La Rochefoucauld, Mary Louise Study Walsh, and William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflections, or, Sentences and moral maxims, (Scribner, Welford and Co., 1871), by François La Rochefoucauld, J. Hain Friswell, and J. W. Willis Bund (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of worldly wisdom (The Macmillan Company, 1945), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Abraham's speech. (G. K. Hall, 1963), by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters, sentences and maxims (A. L. Burt Company, 1900), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, and Charles Sayle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Poor Richard improved : being an almanack and ephemeris of the motions of the sun and moon; the true places and aspects of the planets; the rising and setting of the sun, and the rising, setting and southing of the moon, for the year of our Lord 1758: being the second after leap-year ... (U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006), by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fuller's holy state (Hilliard and Brown, 1831), by Thomas Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Practical morality; or, A guide to men and manners: consisting of Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son. To which is added, a supplement containing extracts from various books, recommended by Lord Chesterfield to Mr. Stanhope. Together with the polite philosopher; or, An essay on the art which makes a man hapopy in himself, and agreeable to others; Dr. Blair's advice to youth; Dr. Fordyce on Honour as a principle; Lord Burghley's Ten percepts to his son; Dr. Franklin's Way to wealth; and Pope's Universal Prayer. (J. Clussman, 1831), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Alexander Pope, Benjamin Franklin, William Cecil Burghley, James Fordyce, Hugh Blair, and James Forrester (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sayings of the wise, or, food for thought. A book of moral wisdom, gathered from the ancient philosophers. (Priv. print., 1907), by William Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Krug chtenii͡a. (Br. Lukshevits, 1910), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Krug chtenī͡a : izbrannyi͡a, sobrannyi͡a i raspolozhennyi͡a na kazhdyĭ denʹ Lʹvom Tolstym mysli mnogikh pisateleĭ ob istini͡e, zhizni i povedenīi (Izd. obshchestvo "Vsemīrnoe bratstvo", 1921), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aforizmy zhiteĭskoĭ mudrosti ([Tip. Akt͡s. O-va Tip. Di͡ela], 1914), by Arthur Schopenhauer and N. M. Gubskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The maxims and reflections of Goethe (Macmillan and co., 1906), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and T. Bailey Saunders (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Principes élémentaires de morale; ou, Traité abrégé des devoirs de l'homme dans la société; suivi de La science du bonhomme Richard, et du Sifflet, opuscules moraux de B. Franklin, le tout recueilli et publié par Gabriel Peignot ... (Paris, 1809), by Gabriel Peignot and Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes de La Rochefoucauld; premier texte imprimé à La Haye en 1664, collationné sur le ms. autographe et sur les éditions de 1665 et 1678, précédé d'une préface (D. Morgand, 1883), by François La Rochefoucauld and A. Pauly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Über die vorstellung vom schicksal in der indischen spruchweisheit (H. Laupp, 1866), by R. Roth (page images at HathiTrust)
• The holy state, and the profane state / By Thomas Fuller. (Printed for T. Tegg, 1841), by Thomas Fuller and James Nichols (page images at HathiTrust)
• Betrachtungen und Maximen (E. Diederichs, 1906), by Vauvenargues and Ernst Hardt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'esprit et la sagesse des autres, recueil de pensées. (Librairie Fischbacher (Société anonyme), 1888), by Eugénie Quartier-La-Tente (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims: political, philosophical, and moral. (Printed and pub. for the author by A.H. Massina & Co., 1889), by Edward Counsel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southey's Common-place book (Harper & brothers, 1849), by Robert Southey and John Wood Warter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book of wise sayings, selected largely from Eastern sources (Hutchinson & co., 1893), by W. A. Clouston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Puro mexicano (Texas Folk-Lore Society, 1935), by J. Frank Dobie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mysli mudrykh li͡udei. (1905), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Krug chtenii͡a. (1906), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fireflies (Macmillan, 1928), by Rabindranath Tagore (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Maximes & reflexions diverses (Princeton University Press, 1929), by François La Rochefoucauld and Henry Alexander Grubbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Bruyère and Vauvenargues : selections from the Characters, Reflexions and maxims (A. Constable, 1903), by Jean de La Bruyère, Vauvenargues, and Elizabeth Lee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Philosophie : suivie de Pochades et croquis (F. Bernouard, 1927), by Georges Courteline (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les maximes de La Rochefoucauld, suivies des réflexions diverses (Librarie des Bibliophiles, 1892), by François La Rochefoucauid and Jean François Thénard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The club: or, A grey cap for a green head. Containing maxims, advice & cautions, being a dialogue between a father & son. (Printed at the Chiswick press, & are to be sold in London by Freemantle & co., and in New York by Trueslove, Hanson & Comba, 1900), by James Puckle and Austin Dobson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Angel voices, or, Words of counsel for overcoming the world (Ticknor and Fields, 1864), by William Treat (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of the proverbs of all nations, compared, explained, and illustrated. (Warren F. Draper, 1869), by Walter K. Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Witty, wise and wicked maxims. (Brentano's, 1897), by Henri Pène du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
• A new and critical version of Rhymes on moral instruction attributed to Rabbi Hai ben Sherira gaon based on three mss. in the British museum (H. Milford, Oxford university press, 1922), by Hai ben Sherira and Hermann Gollancz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The philosophy of Ingersoll. (P. Elder, 1913), by Robert Green Ingersoll and Vere Goldthwaite (page images at HathiTrust)
• French folly in maxims (Brentano's, 1894), by Henri Pène du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some fruits of solitude in reflections & maxims (Freemantle, 1901), by William Penn and Edmund Gosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral and religious maxims for children. (Sandbornton Press, 1835) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introductio ad prudentiam: or, Directions, counsels, and cautions, : tending to prudent management of affairs in common life. : In two volumes. (Printed for G. and T. Wilkie ... and E. Easton, Salisbury., 1787), by Thomas Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquity : or The wise instructor. Being a collection of the most valuable admonitions and sentences, compendiously put together, from an infinite variety of the most celebrated Christian and heathen writers, divine, moral historical, poetical and political. (Printed for J. Brooks, the editor, by N. Nickson, 1773), by Jonathan Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Questions du temps et problèmes d'autrefois. Pensées sur l'histoire, la vie sociale, la littérature. Cours du Collége de France. <1841-1867&gt (G. Baillière, 1867), by Philarète Chasles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aunt Jemimy's maxims (Broadway Pub. Co., 1907), by Cally Ryland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elegant extracts; or, The literary nosegay: consisting of selections in prose (Printed and Published by Philip Mauro, 1814), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbial wisdom; comprising a collection of proverbs, maxims and ethical sentences, for the guidance of all classes of men. (The compiler, 1897), by Abram N. Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southey's common-place book (Longmans, 1850), by Robert Southey and John Wood Warter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brett's miscellany: Being a collection of divine, moral, historical, and entertaining sayings and observations. (Printed by Powell, 1748), by Peter Brett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selectae e profanis scriptoribus historiae; quibus admista sunt varia honeste vivendi praecepta, ex iisdem scriptoribus deprompta ... (Impensis C. Bathurst, 1775) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The immortal mentor; or, Man's unerring guide to a healthy, wealthy, and happy life. In three parts. (Printed for the Rev. Mason L. Weems, 1802), by Thomas Scott, Benjamin Franklin, Luigi Cornaro, and M. L. Weems (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some fruits of solitude [by] William Penn. (H. M. Caldwell co., 1903), by William Penn (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book for spare moments. The urn and the page. (J. Hogg, 1856), by Harvey Buckland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select proverbs of all nations: illustrated with notes and comments, to which is added, a summary of ancient pastimes, holidays and customs. With an analysis of the wisdom of the ancients, and of the fathers of the church, the whole arranged on a new plan (P. Covert, 1825), by John Wade (page images at HathiTrust)
• Classical authors. Ancient and wise thoughts of famous men who lived before Christ. (F. A. Stokes Company, 1896), by Rosa Belle Holt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts that inspire ... (Personal Help Publishing Company, 1910), by George H. Knox (page images at HathiTrust)
• My thought book. (Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1825), by J. P. Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dr. Johnson's Table talk, containing aphorisms on literature, life, and manners; with anecdotes of distinguished persons, selected and arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson. (C. Dilly, 1798), by Samuel Johnson and James Boswell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon: or, Many things in few words ... (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1826), by C. C. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims and moral reflections (A. Donaldson, 1783), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflexions et maximes morales de M. le duc de la Rochefoucault. (J.G. Baerstecher, 1772), by François La Rochefoucauld and Jean Manzon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réflexions : ou, Sentences et maximes morales de La Rochefoucauld (Lefèvre, 1822), by François La Rochefoucauld and Louis-Aimé Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Floresta española, de apotegmas, ó sentencias, sabia y graciosamente dichas, de algunos españoles (R. Ruiz, impresor, 1790), by Melchor de Santa Cruz de Dueñas and Francisco Asensio y Mejorado (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selectæ e profanis scriptoribus historiæ : quibus admista sunt varia honeste vivendi præcepta, ex iisdem scriptoribus deprompta. (Printed for M. Carey & Son, 1819), by Jean Heuzet and James Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Southey's Common-place book... (Reeves and Turner, 1876), by Robert Southey and John Wood Warter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ali's hundert Sprüche (Vogel, 1837), by Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib and Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims of Washington; political, social, moral and religious. (D. Appleton and Company; [etc., etc.], 1855), by George Washington and John Frederick Schroeder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wit and humor of well-known quotations (Small, Maynard & Co., 1905), by Marshall Brown and Marshall Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes de Mme de Sablé (1678) (Librairie des bibliophiles, 1870), by Madeleine de Souvré Sablé and D. Jouaust (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire de maximes; ou, Choix de maximes, pensées, sentences, réflexions et définitions, extraites des moralistes et des écrivains tant anciens que modernes. (A.J. Kilian, 1828), by Joseph François Gabriel Hennequin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Desultory thoughts and reflections (Wiley and Putnam, 1839), by Marguerite Blessington (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pearls of thought. (Houghton, Mifflin & company, 1881), by Maturin Murray Ballou (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of prudence; or, A companion for a man of sense. (J. Bowyer, 1705), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaie, and John Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guesses at truth (Macmillan and Co., 1874), by Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare (page images at HathiTrust)
• The peace of Europe, the fruits of solitude, and other writings (J.M. Dent & Sons, ltd.;, 1915), by William Penn and Joseph Besse (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of worldly wisdom (Macmillan and co., 1904), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales and Joseph Jacobs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Oráculo manual [por] Gracián. (Compañía Ibero-americana de Publicaciones, 1928), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reflections. (Press of G. H. Ellis, 1885), by E. Wigglesworth and Mary Goddard Wigglesworth Pickering (page images at HathiTrust)
• The œconomy of human life, (Printed for W. Gardiner ..., 1806), by Robert Dodsley, John Hill, and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Abraham's advice to his neighbours (Printed by C. Sutton, Bridlesmith-Gate, 1800), by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libro de los libros (S. Veguer, 1841), by O. E. Moralinto (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flashlights for concentration (The Progress company; [etc., etc.], 1909), by Ella Elizabeth Dodson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Truth (Regan Printing and Pub. House, 1909), by John A. Joyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three thousand thistles (Milford, IN : Milford Mail, 1909), by W. E. Groves (page images at HathiTrust)
• Translations from the Greek, viz., Aristotle's synopsis of the virtues and vices. The similitudes of Demophilus. The golden sentences of Democrates. And the Pythagoric symbols with the explanations of Jamblichus. (Printed for W. Bridgman, by R. Wilks, 1804), by William Bridgman and Thomas Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• The economy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered, in a letter from an English gentleman residing in China to the Earl of *******. (Jacob Johnson, 1807), by Robert Dodsley, John Hill, and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selectæ e profanis scriptoribus historiæ : quibus admista sunt varia honeste vivendi præcepta, ex iisdem scriptoribus deprompta. (Printed for Thomas & William Bradford, Bradford & Inskeep, Matthew Carey, Jacob Johnson, C. & A. Conrad & Co., Bennett & Walton, & Benjamin & Thomas Kite, 1809), by James Ross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les pensées, maximes, et réflexions morales de François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld : avec des remarques & notes critiques, morales, politiques & historiques sur chacune de ces pensées (Chez Nyon l'aine, librarie, 1777), by François La Rochefoucauld, Marguerite Hessein de Rambouillet de La Sablière, Jean Baptiste Louis de La Roche, and Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbs; or, The manual of wisdom: being an alphabetical arrangement of the best English, Spanish, French, Italian, and other proverbs. To which are subjoined the Wise sayings, precepts, maxims, and reflections of the most illustrious ancients ... (Tabart and Co., 1804), by William Fordyce Mavor, Munday and Slatter, and Tabart and Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Characteristics : in the manner of Rochefoucault's maxims. (Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1823), by William Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examen critique des Réflexions : ou Sentences et maximes morales de La Rochefoucauld (Lefèvre, 1822), by Louis-Aimé Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pensées (Chez Volland, le jeune, 1825), by Johan Thuresson Oxenstierna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sentences de Sextius philosophe pythagoricien (Pagnerre, 1843), by Pythagoreus Sextus and C. de Lasteyrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ffordd i gaffael cyfoeth (Argraffedig dros y cyfieithydd, 1839), by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Roberts, and Bob Short (page images at HathiTrust)
• The holy state and the profane state (William Pickering, 1840), by Thomas Fuller and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Americana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims on health, business, law, policy, and mind (Perkins & Marvin, 1836), by Joel Giles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parley's Franklin. (Desilver, Thomas & Co. ... , 1836), by Benjamin Franklin and Samuel G. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sayings that never grow old : Wit and humour of well-known quotations (Small, Maynard & Company, 1918), by Marshall Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbs, maxims and phrases, drawn from all lands and times : carefully selected and indexed for convenient reference. (Penn Pub. Co., 1908), by John Hendricks Bechtel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales de La Rochefoucauld. (Alphonse Lemerre, 1870), by François La Rochefoucauld and Charles Royer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The economy of human life (Hilliard and Brown, 1827), by Robert Dodsley, John Hill, and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbs, maxims and phrases of all ages : classified subjectively and arranged alphabetically (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1888), by Robert Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (Éditions D'Art Édouard Pelletan, 1920), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Conseils de la sagesse (Par la Campagnie des Libraires, 1714), by Michel Boutauld and Nicolas Fouquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art of prudence (Printed for D. Browne, 1714), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaie, and John Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosopho sueco (Libr. de Mons. Symond, 1745), by Johan Thuresson Oxenstierna (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims of a queen, Christina of Sweden (1626-89) (J. Lane, 1907), by Queen of Sweden Christina (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Armilla catechetica (Printed by John Field, printer to the University, 1659), by John Arrowsmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some fruits of solitude (H. M. Caldwell co., 1903), by William Penn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Daily maxims, right and bright (Schoreck & co., 1916), by Albert Robert Schoreck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The opinion shop (Gay and Hancock, 1911), by Hildric Davenport (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Handorakel und Kunst der Weltklugheit. (A. Kröner, 1910), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Heinrich Schmidt, and Arthur Schopenhauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• "The sayings of Poor Richards." : The prefaces, proverbs, and poems of Benjamin Franklin originally printed in Poor Richard's almanacs for 1733-1758 (G. P. Putnam, The Knickerbocker Press [introd.], 1889), by Benjamin Franklin and Paul Leicester Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Criticisms, reflections, and maxims of Goethe (Walter Scott Publishing Co., 1890), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and W. B. Rönnfeldt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims, morals, and golden rules. ([s.n.], 1844) (page images at HathiTrust)
• As a man thinketh (Union Central Life Insurance Co., 1946), by William Muhlberg and Union Central Life Insurance Co (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ioannis Stobaei Florilegium (Teubner, 1855), by Stobaeus and August Meineke (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes saintes et chrétiennes. (Deshayes, 1735), by Jean Du Vergier de Hauranne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral maxims, from the wisdom of Jesus, the son of Sirach, or Ecclesiasticus. (printed for J. Harris, successor to E. Newbery, 1807), by Elizabeth Semple and J. Harris (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Angel-voices; or, Words of counsel for overcoming the world ... After the mode of Richter's, 'Best hours.' (Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1849), by William Treat (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbial philosophy: a book of thoughts and arguments (Phillips, Sampson and Co., 1850), by Martin Farquhar Tupper (page images at HathiTrust)
• La clef des Maximes de La Rochefoucauld : études littéraires compaŕees (E. Dreyfus-Brisac, 1904), by Edmond Dreyfus-Brisac (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De nugis philosophorum quae supersunt. E codicibus et auctoribus vetustis eruit, nunc primum edidit (Schweighauser, 1855), by Caecilius Balbus, Eduard von Wölfflin, and Syrus Publilius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximen der Kriegsheilkunst (Hahn, 1861), by Georg Friedrich Louis Stromeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bons mots (Morisset, 1741), by M. Charpentier and active 1715-1734 Boscheron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oeuvres inédites de La Rochefoucauld publiées d'après les manuscrits conservés par la famille et précédées de l'histoire de sa vie (L. Hachette, 1863), by François La Rochefoucauld and Edouard de Barthélemy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbial philosophy : a book of thoughts and arguments, originally treated (E.H. Butler, 1852), by Martin Farquhar Tupper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pensieri morali. (Antonio ed Angelo Cappelli, 1845), by Niccolò Tommaseo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sentenze e massime morali. (P. Rolandi, etc., 1842), by P. L. Rosteri (page images at HathiTrust)
• The maxims of Francis Guicciardini. (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1845), by Francesco Guicciardini and Emma Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflections; or, Sentences and moral maxims. (S. Low, Son, and Marston, 1871), by François La Rochefoucauld, J. W. Willis Bund, J. Hain Friswell, and John William Bund Willis-Bund (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil d'anecdotes. (J. Laisné, 1857) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wise texts from the ancients (printed for private circulation only, 1893), by Clara Paget (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes (A. L. Humphreys, 1902), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Maxims and moral reflections of the Duke de La Rochefoucault, also Shakesperian aphorisms. (James Miller, 1876), by François La Rochefoucauld and William Shakespeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hécatomgraphie, 1540 (H. Champion, 1905), by Gilles Corrozet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The bankette of sapience. (In aedibus T. Bertheleti, 1539), by Thomas Elyot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novos pensamentos, máximas e reflexös (Rio de Janeiro, 1843), by Mariano José Pereira da Fonseca (page images at HathiTrust)
• World's laconics being choice thoughts of best authors in prose and poetry. (Dodd, 1871), by Tryon Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pričte : ilite po prostomu poslovie : Ti͡emže sentencīe, ilite ri͡echenīi͡a (Pečatana pri Slaveno serbskoĭ pečetni Kral. ounīvers. vengerskago, 1807), by Jovan Muškatirović (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pensées ingenieuses des anciens et des modernes. (Chez Nyon, 1761), by Dominique Bouhours (page images at HathiTrust)
• The economy of human life, complete in two parts. (R. Scott, 1806), by Robert Dodsley, John Hill, and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes et réflexions morales. (Didot, 1802), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The counsels of wisdom. Or, A collection of such maxims of Solomon as are most necessary for the prudent conduct of life. With proper reflections upon them. (Printed at the Theater., 1736), by Michel Boutauld, John Leak, and Nicolas Fouquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The triads of Ireland. (Hodges, Figgis, & co., ltd.; [etc., etc.], 1906), by Kuno Meyer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jitsugokyō genkai (s.n.], 1669), by Ekū and Kohō Shōgetsutei (page images at HathiTrust)
• Counsels and maxims; being the second part of Arthur Schopenhauer's Aphorismen zur lebensweisheit. Tr. by T. Bailey Saunders, M.A. (S. Sonnenschein & Co., 1912), by Arthur Schopenhauer and T. Bailey Saunders (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Certain maxims of Hafiz. (R. G. Badger, 1898), by Rudyard Kipling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Putʹ zhizni. (1911), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kitāb Sirāj al-mulūk (al-Maṭbaʻah al-Waṭanīyah, 1872), by Muḥammad ibn al-Walīd Ṭurṭūshī (page images at HathiTrust)
• The oeconomy of human life (Printed for M. Cooper, 1751), by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Floresta general. (Imprenta de Fortanet, 1910), by Melchor de Santa Cruz de Dueñas and Francisco Asensio y Mejorado (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The oeconomy of human life (J. Dodsley, 1796), by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fruits of solitude, and other writings (Dent ;, 1915), by William Penn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes et portraits : (évolution du genre) (P. Delaplane, 1909), by Léon Levrault (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Réflexions, sentences, et maximes morales de la Rochefoucauld (Garnier frères, 1867), by François La Rochefoucauld, Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard, Lue de Clapiers Vauvenargues, and Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of Ingersoll; to plow is to pray, to plant is to prophesy, and the harvest answers and fulfils. (P. Elder and company, 1913), by Robert Green Ingersoll and Vere Goldthwaite (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Maxims of le duc de La Rochefoucauld (Houghton Mifflin co., 1917), by François La Rochefoucauld and John Heard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Profane state (Printed by Roger Daniel for John Williams, 1642), by Thomas Fuller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbs, maxims and phrases of all ages (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1898), by Robert Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rochefoucault Nachlese (Grt̀z, 1793), by Friedrich Schulz and François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims and moral reflections (printed for Alexander Donaldson, 1776), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réflexions, sentences et maximes morales. Nouv. éd., conforme à celle de 1678, et à laquelle on a joint les annotations d'un contemporain sur chaque maxime, les variantes des premières éditions et des notes nouvelles par G. Duplessis. (P. Jannet, 1853), by François La Rochefoucauld, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, and Georges Duplessis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select tales and fables, with prudential maxims and other little lessons of morality in prose and verse ... The whole embellish'd with threescore original designs ... neatly engrav'd on copper plates. (Printed for T. Osborn, 1746), by Benjamin Cole (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mottoes of the Spectators, Tatlers and Guardians : translated into English (Wellington, 1735), by Thomas Broughton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pensées ingénieuses des anciens et des modernes. (F. & P. Delaulne, 1698), by Dominique Bouhours (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral maxims (Printed for A. Millar, 1749), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nouvelles maximes ou Reflexions morales. (Chez Pierre Le Petit., 1679), by A. Rousseau (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'homme de cour (Chez Damien Beugnie, 1702), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales and Abraham-Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims, reflections, &c. (Longman and co., 1830), by Richard Duppa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire de maximes (A. J. Kilian, 1828), by Joseph François Gabriel Hennequin (page images at HathiTrust)
• La morale primitive (L. Passard, 1855), by Charles Paultre des Ormes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sayings of sages: (Carlton & Porter, 1863), by Charles C. Converse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbial wisdom; comprising a collection of proverbs, maxims and ethical sentences, for the guidance of all classes of men. (The compiler, 1897), by Abram N. Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réflexions, sentences, et maximes morales de la Rochefoucauld ... (Garnier frères, 1867), by François La Rochefoucauld, Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard, Lue de Clapiers Vauvenargues, and Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (page images at HathiTrust)
• The economy of human life, tr. from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin : to which is pŕefixed. an account of the manner in which said manuscript was discovered, in a letter from an English gentleman residing in China, to the Earl of ***** : Printed for Joseph Peace Hazard. (Times Print., 1883), by Robert Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims & réflexions morales (Paris, 1906), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das buch der erziehung für denkende frauen : Eine mitgabe fürs leben ... (O. Spammer, 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nuggets of wisdom (J.H. Yewdale & Sons Co., 1903), by James Davies (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il novissimo passatempo, pollitico, istorico, & ecconomico (I. Bertani, 1639), by Eugenio Raimondi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The economy of human life. (Printed by Charter & Hall, for Thomas & Thomas, 1807), by Robert Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The oeconomy of human life: translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin; to which is prefixed an account of the manner, in which the said manuscript was discovered. In a letter from a Englishman, now residing in China, to the Earl of **** (R. and J. Dodsley, 1758), by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mannerschule (J.B. Metzler, 1838), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales and Friedrich von Kölle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-orakel und kunst der weltklugheit : Aus dessen werken gezogen von Don Vincencio Quan de Lastanosa, und aus dem spanischen original treu und sorgfältig übers. von Arthur Schopenhauer. (Nachgelassenes manuscript). (Leipzig, 1871), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Vicente Juan de Lastanosa y Baraiz de Vera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes et conseils de Louis Hainault à ses enfants (E. Senécal, 1880), by Louis Hainault (page images at HathiTrust)
• I believe that (W. Tyrrell, 1912), by Alan Sullivan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The economy of human life (Reprinted for W.A. Williamson, Brampton, 1914), by R. Dodsley, John Hill, and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New Year blessings (W. Briggs, 1913), by Eliza Silverwood Routley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The way to wealth (Brigdens, 1918), by Benjamin Franklin and E. B. Osler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Valuable proverbs and helpful sayings that everyone should know (s.n., 1916), by A. T. Stone (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Cranbrook annual a book of folly and wisdom (s.n.], 1916), by William Henry Bridge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The economy of human life (Re-published by direction of the will of the late S. Hughes, 1866), by Robert Dodsley, John Hill, and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Satellitium animi (A. Pichler's Witwe, 1883), by Juan Luis Vives and Jacob Wychgram (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettters. (Ginn & Co., 1893), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield and Edwin Ginn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophy indien, ou l'art de vivre heureux dans la société (Pri Pani Oeodosii︠u︡, 1809), by Pavle Solaric and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chesterfield's letters. (Henry Altemus, 1892), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims, being part 1 of the maxims of equity (Harvard law review association, 1921), by Roscoe Pound (page images at HathiTrust)
• Angel voices, or Words of counsel for overcoming the world. (J.R. Osgood & Co., 1873) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The message of man; a book of ethical scriptures, gathered from many sources and arranged (S. Sonnenschein and co., ld., 1905), by Stanton Coit (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Religion. (Caxton Printing Works, 1904), by Curbipet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Maxims, political, philosophical, and moral : with an appendix. ([s.n.], 1892), by Edward Counsel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great men, Short sayings of. (J.R. Osgood & Company, 1882), by Samuel Arthur Bent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters, sentences, and maxims (Putnam, 1888), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield and Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes et réflexions morales : précédées d'une étude par Emile Deschanel (Librairie de la Bibliothèque Nationale, 1873), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• French folly in maxims of philosophy. (Brentano's, 1894), by Henri Pène du Bois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Truth (Regan Printing and Publishing House, 1908), by John A. Joyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aspirations of the world ... (Roberts Bros., 1887), by Lydia Maria Child and Alice Stone Blackwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbs, maxims, and phrases of all ages : classified subjectively and arranged alphabetically (G. P. Putnam's Sons ;, 1903), by Robert Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Polonius: a collection of wise saws and modern instances. (Thomas B. Mosher, 1901), by Edward FitzGerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbial wisdom; proverbs, maxims and ethical sentences, of interest to all classes of men. (Eckler, 1903), by Abram N. Coleman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some fruits of solitude (Headley, 1905), by William Penn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Floresta general. ([Sociedad de Biblio̲filos Madrilen̲os], 1910), by Bernardino Ferna̲ndez de Velasco y Pimentel Fri̲as, Melchor de Santa Cruz de Dueñas, Francisco Asensio y Mejorado, and Pablo Oyanguren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Counsels and maxims; being the second part of Arthur Schopenhauer's Aphorismen zur lebensweisheit. (S. Sonnenschein & Co., 1891), by Arthur Schopenhauer and T. Bailey Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbs, maxims and phrases of all ages. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1888), by Robert Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbs, maxims and phrases of all ages. (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1889), by Robert Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conduct, health, good fortune (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1911), by Grace Browne Strand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select e profanis scriptoribus histori (Hachette, 1893), by Albert Leconte and Jean Heuzet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Las conferencias de Arnaldo y Veremundo, y relación de monumentos y establecimientos notables de Madrid, y su antigüedad, publicado ...con motivo de las fiestas de Colón... (Est.tip.de los sucesores de Cuesta, 1892), by Juan de Dios Blas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes (A. Wessels, 1908), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Con el eslabon. ([publisher not identified], 1918), by Enrique José Varona (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Encyclope diana. Recueil d'anecdotes anciennes modernes et contemporaines tire de tous les Recueils de ce genre publie s jusq'ua ce jour. (J. Laisne, 1856) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Words of counsel for overcoming the world (James R. Osgood, 1871), by William Treat and Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes de morale, tirées des poësies d'Horace et réduites en forme de jeu. (Gotha, 1759), by Horace (page images at HathiTrust)
• Samachscharis Goldne Halsbänder (F. Brodhag, 1836), by Mahmud ibn Umar al-Zamakhshari and Gustav Weil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nuggets from a Welsh mine; selections from the writings of Jenkin Lloyd Jones. (Unity Publishing Company, 1902), by Jenkin Lloyd Jones and Olive E. Weston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Concentrated wisdom (Printed by T. Wilson, and sold by J. Mawman [etc.], 1808), by A. Hunter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Krug chtenīi͡a : izbrannyi͡a, sobrannyi͡a i raspolozhennyi͡a na kazhdyĭ denʹ Lʹvom Tolstym mysli mnogikh pisateleĭ ob istini͡e, zhizni i povedenīi. (Izd. Posrednika, 1910), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aspirations of the world. A chain of opals. (Roberts Brothers, 1881), by Lydia Maria Child (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réflexions; ou, Sentences et maximes morales de La Rochefoucauld (Lefèvre, 1844), by François La Rochefoucauld, L.-A. Martin, and Vauvenargues (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes et oeuvres complètes de François duc de La Rochefoucault, terminées par une table alphabétique des matières, plus ample et plus commode que celles des éditions précédentes ... (Chez Desenne, 1796), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes et réflexions morales (Bibliothèque nationale, 1877), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims and reflections upon man. (New York, 1896), by François La Rochefoucauld and King of Poland Stanisław I Leszczyński (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbs, maxims and phrases of all ages : classified subjectively and arranged alphabetically (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890), by Robert Christy (page images at HathiTrust)
• La Bruyère und Vauvenargues: selections from the Characters [and] Reflexions and maxims (E.P. Dutton, 1903), by Jean de La Bruyère, Elizabeth Lee, and Vauvenargues (page images at HathiTrust)
• Counsels and maxims : being the second part of Arthur Schopenhauer's Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (S. Sonnenschein & Co., ltd. ;, 1899), by Arthur Schopenhauer and T. Bailey Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sentenze e morali considerazioni del duca della Rochefoucauld (Mazzarini, 1838), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sprechendes leuchten für denkende menschen, ein büchlein gedanken. (Schuster, 1902), by Hugo Oswald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The world's best proverbs and maxims, gleaned from many sources (George H. Doran company, 1926), by James Gilchrist Lawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• David Klaus. Ein sittenbuch für gute leute in allen ständen (Bei dem verfasser und im Waisenhause, 1796), by Johann Werner Streithorst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Character, a moral text-book, for the use of parents and teachers in training youth in the principles of conduct and an aid to self-culture ... (H. Varnum, 1903), by Henry Varnum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les maximes du scribe Ani d'après le papyrus hiératique no IV du Musée de Boulaq avec double transcription, traduction analytique et commentaire perpétuel (J. Dejussieu; [etc., etc.], 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern proverbs (Inspiration Press, 1960), by Louis P. Penningroth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Character; a text-book on principles of moral conduct ... (The Standard Pub. Co., 1926), by Henry Varnum and Henrietta Heron (page images at HathiTrust)
• Old friends are best. (Dodge Pub. Co., 1910), by Richard Brooks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Reflections. (H.M. Caldwell Co., 1900), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• The maxiomatic confuser; a volume of crossword puzzles and games, based on maximes, axioms, proverbs, wise sayings--and just plain old saws (McKay Co., 1958), by Boris Randolph (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The world's best proverbs and maxims : gleaned from many sources (Grosset & Dunlap, 1937), by J. Gilchrist Lawson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Counsels and maxims; being the second part of Arthur Schopenhauer's Aphorismen zur lebensweisheit... (S. Sonnenschein & co., ltd.;, 1905), by Arthur Schopenhauer, T. Bailey Saunders, and Book Traces Project (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selectae e profanis scriptoribus historiae (Hachette, 1921), by Jean Heuzet and Albert Maric Leconte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pensées ingenieuses des anciens et des modernes / Dominique Bouhours. (University of Sussex Library, 1971), by Dominique Bouhours (page images at HathiTrust)
• Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum (Excudebat Josias Staedel ..., 1674), by Joseph Lang, Josias Städel, Johann Jakob Walther, and Peter Aubry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims, characters, and reflections, critical, satyrical, and moral (Printed for J. and R. Tonson, 1756), by Fulke Greville (page images at HathiTrust)
• The immortal mentor: or, Man's unerring guide to a healthy, wealthy, and happy life. In three parts. (Printed for the Rev. Mason L. Weems, by Francis and Robert Bailey, 1796), by Robert Bailey, Francis Bailey, James D. Hart, Thomas Scott, Benjamin Franklin, Luigi Cornaro, and M. L. Weems (page images at HathiTrust)
• Facetie moti, et burle, di diuersi Signori, & persone piruate (Appresso Plaulo Vgolino, 1599), by Thomaso Porcacchi and Lodovico Domenichi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters, sentences and maxims (Chesterfield Society, in the 1850s), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, and Charles Edward Sayle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The foreman's daily prompter, written in shop terms (The Christopher publishing house, 1940), by J. J. Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
• Krug chtenīi︠a︡ : izbrannyi︠a︡, sobrannyi︠a︡ i raspolozhennyi︠a︡ na kazhdyĭ den ́Lvom ́Tolstym mysli mnogikh pisateleĭ ob istini︠e︡, zhizni i porednīi. ([publisher not identified], 1910), by Leo Tolstoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes et ref́lexions morales du duc de la Rochefoucault. (Delarue, Libraire-Éditeur, 1880), by François La Rochefoucauld and J. B. A. Suard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters, sentences, and maxims. (S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1878), by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reflections and maxims of Wm. Penn. (Uriah Hunt & Son, 1850), by William Penn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The individual, a new idealism (New York, 1944), by A young philospher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daily maxims from Amiel's Journal (T. Y. Crowell & co., 1902), by Henri Frédéric Amiel and Orline Gates (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vecizeler. (Necm-i İstikbal Matbaası, 1922), by Mehmet Cemil (page images at HathiTrust)
• Law and society ([Reno?], 1939), by James E. Church and University of Nevada (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Golden words for daily counsel. (T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1888), by Anna Harris Smith and Huntington Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes de La Rochefoucauld. (Larousse, 1913), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Father Abraham's speech to a great number of people, at a vendue of merchant-goods; introduced to the publick by Poor Richard, a famous Pennsylvania conjurer, and almanack-maker, in answer to the following questions. Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times? Won't these heavy taxes quite ruin the country? How shall we be ever able to pay them? What would you advise us to? To which are added, seven curious pieces of writing. ([Boston, 1940), by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The philosophy of Ingersoll. (P. Elder, 1913), by Robert Green Ingersoll and Vere Goldthwaite (page images at HathiTrust)
• Counsels and maxims; being the second part of Arthur Schopenhauer's Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit... (Macmillan;, in the 1890s), by Arthur Schopenhauer and T. Bailey Saunders (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aṭbāq al-dhahab. (1727), by ʻAbd al-Muʼmin ibn Hibat Allāh Shufurvah Iṣfahānī, Aḥmad ibn Maḥmūd ibn 'Alī al-Khuwī, and Blacker-Wood Library of Zoology and Ornithology (page images at HathiTrust)
• The philosophy of Ingersoll; to plow is to pray, to plant is to prophesy, and the harvest answers and fulfils. (P. Elder and company, 1906), by Robert Green Ingersoll and Vere Goldthwaite (page images at HathiTrust)
• The moral maxims and reflections of the Duke de la Rochefoucauld. : With an introduction and notes (New York : Stokes, [1924], 1924), by François La Rochefoucauld and G. H. Powell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pearls of thought. (Boston, 1882), by Maturin M. Ballou (page images at HathiTrust)
• La philosophie de Georges Courteline. (E. Flammarion, 1929), by Georges Courteline (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some fruits of solitude ([Harrisburg?], 1944), by William Penn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Maximes et proverbes (Saigon : Imprimerie & Librairie Nouvelles, Claude & Cie, 1896., 1896), by Tịnh Paulus Của Huình (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mes heures de loisirs. Conseils à la ennesse ... (Librairie du Petit Journal, 1865), by Siméon-Edmond Hirschler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maxims of La Rochefoucauld. (A. Wessels Company, 1908), by François La Rochefoucauld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pensamientos, máximas, sentencias, etc. de escritores, oradores y hombres de estado de la República Argentina (Imprenta de Mayo, 1859), by Juan María Gutiérrez (page images at HathiTrust)
• Desultory thoughts and reflections, by Marguerite Blessington (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letters, sentences and maxims, by Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, contrib. by Charles Sayle and Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (Gutenberg ebook)
• The cynic's breviary: Maxims and anecdotes from Nicolas de Chamfort, by Sébastien-Roch-Nicolas Chamfort, trans. by William G. Hutchison (Gutenberg ebook)
• Sto jisker ethických (in Czech), by Alexandr Batěk (Gutenberg ebook)
• Maximes (in Dutch), by François duc de La Rochefoucauld, trans. by Daniel François Scheurleer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Életbölcseség: Aforizmák (in Hungarian), by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by Ferenc Kelen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (in German), by Arthur Schopenhauer (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Flor De Piel: Frases (in Spanish), by Gustavo Sánchez Galarraga (Gutenberg ebook)
• Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters: Also, Miseries of Fishing, by Richard Penn (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aphorismes sur la sagesse dans la vie (in French), by Arthur Schopenhauer, trans. by J. A. Cantacuzène (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Triads of Ireland, ed. by Kuno Meyer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pearls of Thought, by Maturin M. Ballou (Gutenberg ebook)
• Book of Wise Sayings: Selected Largely from Eastern Sources, by W. A. Clouston (Gutenberg ebook)
• Máximas Morales en Ilocano y Castellano: Para Uso de los Niños (in Spanish and Iloko) (Gutenberg ebook)
• Wise or Otherwise, by Lydia Leavitt and Thad. W. H. Leavitt (Gutenberg ebook)
• Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales (in French), by François duc de La Rochefoucauld (Gutenberg ebook)
• Old Mr. Dod's sayings (London : Printed by A. Maxwell, 1671), by John Dod (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The holy state by Thomas Fuller ... (Cambridge : Printed by Roger Daniel for John Williams ..., 1642), by Thomas Fuller (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Oráculo manual y arte de prudencia. English (London : Printed by M. Flesher, for Abel Swalle ..., 1685), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Héroe. English (London : Printed for John Martin and James Allestrye ..., 1652), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, John Skeffington Massereene, and Izaak Walton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Horæ succisivæ, or, Spare-houres of meditations upon our duty to [brace] God, others, our selves / by Ios. Henshaw. (London : Printed by R. Badger for Ralph Mabb, 1631), by Joseph Henshaw (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Maximes. English (London : Printed for T. Bassett ..., 1670), by François La Rochefoucauld and John Davies (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Maximes. English (London : Printed for M. Gillyflower ... R. Sare ... and J. Everingham ..., 1694), by François La Rochefoucauld, Madeleine de Souvré Sablé, and d'. Mixed thoughts Ailly (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Enchiridion. 1698 (London : Printed for, and are to be so[ld by] Josias Shaw ..., 1698), by Francis Quarles and George Savile Halifax (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Enchiridion (London : Printed for Sam. Briscoe ..., 1695), by Francis Quarles (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Multum in parvo: or, Some useful sayings, in verse and prose: collected by a lover of virtue and goodness in whomsoever. (London : printed for Samuel Manship at the Black Bull in Cornhill, 1687), by John Pennyman (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Miscellanea, or, A mixture of choyce observations and institutions, moral, and divine, composed for private use being the product of spare hours, and the meditations of J.H. (London : Printed for Thomas Helder ..., 1669), by Joseph Henshaw (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A survey of the world in ten books / by Barten Holyday ... (Oxford : Printed by Will. Hall for the authour, 1661), by Barten Holyday (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The following maxims were found amongst the papers of the Great Almanzor and tho they must lose a good deal of their original spirit by the translation, yet they seem to be so applicable to all times, that it is thought no disservice to make them publick. ([London : s.n.], 1693), by Manòsåur ibn Abåi ‘åAmir (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Enchiridion miscellaneum spare houres improv'd in meditations divine, contemplative, practical, moral, ethical, oeconomical, political : from the pietie and learning of Fr. Quarles &amp; Ar. Warwick, Gents. : by it they being dead, yet speak (Heb. XI. 4). (Amsterdam : Printed by Stephen Swart ..., 1677), by Francis Quarles and Arthur Warwick (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An essay to promote virtue by example in a collection of excellent sayings (divine and moral) of devout &amp; learned men, in all ages, from the apostles time, to this present year, 1689 / By William Whitcombe, gent. (London: Printed for the author: and are to be sold by Edw. Evets ..., 1689), by William Whitcombe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Conseils de la sagesse. English. 1683 (Amsterdam : Printed for Stephen Swart, at the Bible and Crown near the Exchange,, 1683.), by Michel Boutauld and Nicolas Fouquet (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The oeconomy of human life, complete, in two parts: / translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin. ; To which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered; in a letter from an English gentleman residing in China, to the Earl of *******. (New-York: : Printed and sold by Hugh Gaine, at the Bible, in Hanover-Square., M,DCC,XC. [1790]), by Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, and John Hill (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Way to wealth ([New Haven] : Printed and sold by T. &amp; S. Green, in New-Haven., [1767]), by Benjamin Franklin (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The way to wealth, and a plan by which every man may pay his taxes. (Philadelphia: : Printed by Daniel Humphreys, in Spring-Street, near the drawbridge., [1785]), by Benjamin Franklin (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Maximes. English (Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by Robert Bell, next door to St. Paul's Church, in Third-Street., M.DCC.LXXVIII. [1778]), by François La Rochefoucauld and David Garrick, trans. by Lockyer Davis (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Miscellaneous extracts in prose and verse. Calculated for the amusement of the humerous [sic] and gay, as well as for the instruction and service of the enquiring and busy world. : To which are added, a number of important questions; which questions, whoever will effectually and satisfactorily answer, shall be entitled to one hundred dollars reward on demand, from Dan. C. Melville. (New-Haven: : [s.n.], Printed in the year, 1798), by Daniel C. Melville (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Some fruits of solitude, in reflections and maxims, relating to the conduct of human life. : In two parts. (Newport, Rhode-Island: : Printed by James Franklin, at the town-school-house,, 1749), by William Penn (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Fruits of solitude, in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. / By William Penn. (Philadelphia: : Printed by Benjamin Johnson., M.DCC.XCII. [1792]), by William Penn (HTML at Evans TCP)

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