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161.--A certain harmony should be kept between actions and ideas if we

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328.--Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.

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250.--True eloquence consists in saying all that should be, not all that

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ago contented himself by dancing on the scaffold when he was about to be

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of the other in devotion." --Junius, Letter To The King.]

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Preoccupation, 92, R.III.

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asked for the Governorship of Havre, which was then vacant. He was

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people show gratitude for trifling, but there is hardly one who does not

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the former. (Letter To M. Esprit, Ms., Fol. 173, MAX. 219.)

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272.--Nothing should so humiliate men who have deserved great praise, as

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THE FIRST SUPPLEMENT

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365.--There are virtues which degenerate into vices when they arise from

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as a single shelter affects those who in war storm a fortress. At a

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There is greater vanity and caprice in taste than in wit.

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from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say. Instead

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Satire is at once the most agreeable and most dangerous of mental

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applause we sometimes receive in censuring others is not worth being

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I feel clear that duty would so well discharge the office of hatred in

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exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we

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20.--The constancy of the wise is only the talent of concealing the

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56.--To establish ourselves in the world we do everything to appear as

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coeloque locamus." Applying to Prudence what Juvenal does to Fortune,

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difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of

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many witty speeches, it is not because I do not appreciate the value of

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["The loss of sensual pleasures was supplied and compensated by

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numen habes si sit Prudentia, nos te; Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam,

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104.--Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge

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in accordance with the present turn of my mind, I do not believe that

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393.--Awkwardness sometimes disappears in the camp, never in the court.

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340, 346, 362, 367, 368, 418, 429, 440, 466, 471,

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Country Manner, 393.

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show ingratitude for great favours.

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324.--There is more self-love than love in jealousy.

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look into for some moments at least every day of your life, is, I fear,

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that chivalrous ambition and romantic affection. He saw his friend Cinq

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379.--As our merit declines so also does our taste.

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Epistle II, line 2}.]

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better officers, have more merit, and wider and more useful, views than

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a copy of each other, if each follow his natural turn of mind. But in

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Friends, 84, 114, 179, 235, 279, 315, 319, 428.

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of September, 1792, when the French people were proclaiming universal

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Notwithstanding Rousseau's assertion, it is young men, who, before they

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characters; even that of disinterestedness.

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Openness of heart, R.1.

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myself internally, externally some bad expression will always remain.

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479.--It is only people who possess firmness who can possess true

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means of being displeasing. (1665, No. 256.)

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Beaufort was arrested, the Duchesse banished. Irritated and disgusted,

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put to death behind his own carriage, in which sat his mother and

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Indifference, 172, XXIII.