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from our defects."--Lord Shaftesbury, Characteristics, i., 153.]

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Chastity, 1. SEE Virtue of Women.

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126.--Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

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place where they peep out."]

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then most flattered." Shakespeare, Julius Caesar {,Act II, Scene I,

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181.--One sort of inconstancy springs from levity or weakness of mind,

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Hall of the Parliament of Paris, and it was with great difficulty they

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254.--Humility is often a feigned submission which we employ to supplant

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473.--However rare true love is, true friendship is rarer.

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not in our power to rid ourselves of a bad expression that arises from

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own time, the other the Maxims. The first described the scenes in which

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for a moment weigh my interest against theirs. I condescend to them,

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conceal their envy of other women.

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in matters confided to us, all are important, to all prudence and trust

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motive for confiding. With them we discharge the obligation in keeping

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We should talk in a more or less serious manner, and upon more or less

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Lovers, 312, 362, LXXXVII, XCVII.

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Follies, 156, 300, 408, 416.

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takes from her all crime to lay it on himself.

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show little faith in virtue, and his habitual custom, to give up matters

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367.--There are few virtuous women who are not tired of their part.

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of any foreign subject."-- Hallam, Literature Of Europe.]

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is soon found out, it always gives rise to distrust and never reaches

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insinuant, souriant, qui precedait de bien peu et preparait avec charme

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Elevation, 399, 400, 403.

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regret her good opinion of us, we deplore the loss of our comfort, our

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friends arises neither from our natural goodness nor from friendship;

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that idleness, like a beatitude of the soul, consoles us for all losses

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A woman may like science, but all sciences are not suitable for her, and

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to us under the guise of good.

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Satire, 483, R.II, R.IV.

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deceit and treachery then witnessed, furnished the real key to their

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To please others we should talk on subjects they like and that interest

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Liberty in Society, R.IV.

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them, avoid disputes upon indifferent matters, seldom ask questions, and

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283.--Sometimes there is not less ability in knowing how to use than in

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Preface (translator's)

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M. Sainte Beuve says, that unless we study this first part of

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of course, sent to the Bastile. He was liberated after a week's

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193.--There are relapses in the diseases of the mind as in those of

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diversity of temperaments, which turn and fix it sometimes upon riches,

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XCVI.--A good woman is a hidden treasure; he who discovers her will do

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451.--No fools so wearisome as those who have some wit.

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Ambition: they are never found together. Moderation is the languor and

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almost impossible to meet with that sort of good taste that knows how to

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although, in the uneasiness they give rise to, there is a something

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372, 397, 403, 411, 428, 493, 494, V, LXV, CX,

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Swedish, and a Spanish translation, an Italian imitation, with parallel

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LXVII.--Why we cry out so much against maxims which lay bare the heart

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only fruits of the war of the Fronde. Madame de Sevigne, who was with