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from regarding it as a point of honour to be constant.

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162.--The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and

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person will not suit everyone, that there is no universal rule for taste

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[That is, they cured him. The madman was Thrasyllus, son of Pythodorus.

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in reasoning, not in acting, lies." Pope, Moral Essays, Ep. i. line 115.

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["{But} when I tell him he hates flatter{ers}, He says he does, being

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["I have often thought how ill-natured a maxim it was which on many

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air of a speaker than in his choice of words.

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object, a plan, or a leader. But this description is hardly correct; it

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of the Duke de la Rochefoucauld. Newly made English. London, 1706. 12

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-------- in Women, XXXIV.

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358.--Humility is the true proof of Christian virtues; without it we

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One can be a fool with much wit, and one need not be a fool even with

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to perceive the slightest change. They may have elsewhere learnt what we

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sciences may be proper for the greater part of those who are capable for

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a vanity that could only exist in a Frenchman, a description or portrait

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Mistaken people, 386.

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persuades them that they have real passion when they have but

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Dr. Johnson speaks of it as "the only book written by a man of fashion,

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174.--It is far better to accustom our mind to bear the ills we have

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X, XI, XIII, LVIII, LX, LXII, LXXXVIII,

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377.--The greatest mistake of penetration is not to have fallen short,

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envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow

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434.--When our friends have deceived us we owe them but indifference to

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own opinion. (See Maxim 347.)

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XXX.--We make no difference in the kinds of anger, although there is

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{Two notes about this quotation: (1) the translators' mistakenly

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cannot say to what this irresolution is to be attributed. It could not

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know when they cease to love each other, arises much less from a wish

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33.--Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away

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ever said anything before them which could cause them annoyance. When

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it is too large than too small, and comes down just a trifle too low. I

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Historiques. Racine.]

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his passing away in a manner that did not disgrace a French noble or a

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276.--Absence extinguishes small passions and increases great ones, as

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498.--Some persons are so frivolous and fickle that they are as far

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perfectly and confess them.

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what we regard as the more important things of life, as in a judicious

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favours he had promised, was because he was persuaded that hope was much

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in due order. Our greediness so often troubles us, making us run after

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so wrong in his judgment of men as is usually supposed.

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little vanity under an apparent modesty, and craftily to try to make

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only saw the motives which caused them.

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this fault in some way. No one has an ear sufficiently fine to mark

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that they are beloved although no one denies it. (1665, No. 303.)

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It is a delicate foresight of the troubles into which we may fall. We

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taste, illustrate their meaning, praise anything they say that deserves

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translations that have been made of them. No less than eight English

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for an air other than their own, and a mind different from what

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We are sure to displease when we speak too long and too often of one