sentences:  Nietzsche also admired the French moralists of the 17th century such as La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyère and Vauvenargues, whose books he received from his sister in 1869.He also admired Pascal and, most of all, Stendhal.He also read Eduard von Hartmann's "Philosophy of the Unconscious", and alludes to it in some of his works.