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pleasing with far less abilities, and why? Because the first wish to

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II., canto i., line 512.]

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all matters allows himself to be seen as he really is.

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part of our confidence.

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Acknowledgements, 225.

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of the Maxims and Reflections. All the translations are confined

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introductory maxim, "Our virtues are generally but disguised vices." The

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437.--We should not judge of a man's merit by his great abilities, but

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264.--Pity is often a reflection of our own evils in the ills of others.

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XLIV.--Imitation is always unhappy, for all which is counterfeit

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Notwithstanding the assertion of Bayle, that "there are few people so

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reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who are all,

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and Moral Reflections. London, 1813. 12 mo. viii. Moral Reflections,

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466.--Of all the violent passions the one that becomes a woman best is

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inverted the case, and made the giver to be the only gainer. For by what

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CXXII.--We would rather see those to whom we have done a benefit, than

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of noble lords who bore that distinguished name. In those terrible days

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to those short aphorisms which leave much to the reader's acuteness and

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and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power

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224.--All those who pay the debts of gratitude cannot thereby flatter

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XXXIV.--One may say of all our virtues as an Italian poet says of the

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Canto II, stanza 179}. In the 1st Edition, 1665, the maxim finishes

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also stand at a distance to observe society; each has its proper point

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XC.--How much is a woman to be pitied who is at the same time possessed

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Most frequently we make confidants from vanity, a love of talking, a

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is no one who has not some falseness in some corner of his mind or his

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perils, which prepare them to face greater dangers. Some will dare a

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CXXV.--A man to whom no one is pleasing is much more unhappy than one

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The word taste has different meanings, which it is easy to mistake.

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playing off the rival parties of the Prince Conde and the Cardinal

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hate those who have obliged them, and cease to hate those who have

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consult ourselves as to what we should say, what we should leave unsaid.

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I could acquire some reputation. I like reading, in general; but that in

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389.--What makes the vanity of others unsupportable is that it wounds

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tamely to afford another the occasion of raising himself a character

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the text. I found this date immediately suspect because the translators'

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of La Rochefoucauld, having been suppressed by the author in succeeding

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266.--We deceive ourselves if we believe that there are violent

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of man, is because we fear that our own heart shall be laid bare. (Maxim

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their fall, because all parties looking after their own interest turn

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profundity; they delight the intelligent though indolent man of the

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503.--Jealousy is the worst of all evils, yet the one that is least

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perhaps still more by the death of the young Duc de Longueville, who

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only a feeble protection. It is only deceiving ourselves to imagine

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In the same way that Herodotus calls each book of his history by

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309.--There are persons fated to be fools, who commit follies not only

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LXXXI.--We trouble ourselves less to become happy, than to make others

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opinion with too much warmth.

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him an ode on death, which aptly describes his state-- "Oui, soyez alors

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to our friends, is not the distrust we have of them, but that we have of