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when we do not like seeing man as he is." Voltaire says of it, in the

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122.--If we conquer our passions it is more from their weakness than

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little better than infidelity.

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To have much mind is a doubtful expression. It may mean every class of

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203.--He is really wise who is nettled at nothing.

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["Men commence by love, finish by ambition, and do not find a quieter

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perfectly this kind of cadence.

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this thought is presented under so many varied aspects that it is

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and do not bring them into unison with ourselves in a manner which suits

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I patiently endure their bad temper. But, also, I do not make much of

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but even his lighter talk, so that nothing be seen in his conversation

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["This is hardly a period at which the most irregular character may not

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objects plain to the sight. (See Maxim 380.)

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of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and

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We feel as confident of them as of ourselves, and we are reduced to the

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surroundings, we might perhaps believe that it was not the greatest of

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thinks more of what he desires to say, than of what the others say, and

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by Richelieu. The Duke de la Rochefoucauld was strongly opposed to the

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than from knowledge.

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We may like a comedy without having a sufficiently fine and delicate

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Sincerity, 62, 316, 366, 383, 457.

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Guise against the Spaniards, was made prisoner at St. Quintin, and only

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the siege of Mardik, and returned from thence to Paris. On recovering

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233.--In afflictions there are various kinds of hypocrisy. In one, under

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The reason for this clemency was that the Cardinal desired to win

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that they can no longer set bad examples.

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In speaking of society my plan is not to speak of friendship, for,

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be praised more highly. Edition 1665.]

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it is but just to say something on the hollowness of the contempt for

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Good sense, 67, 347, CVI.

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house so redolent of high virtue, uprightness, and lordliness as that

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497.--It is valueless to a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be

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Glory, 157, 198, 221, 268.

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400.--There may be talent without position, but there is no position

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it triumphs in its own defeat. Here then is the picture of self-love

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["All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely

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better faith, who are born false, who deceive themselves, and who never

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supplement, those published in former editions, and rejected by the

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not allowing people to penetrate the slight acquaintance he has with

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Longueville, to be arrested, Rochefoucauld and the Duchess fled into

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282.--Some disguised lies so resemble truth, that we should judge badly

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322.--Those only are despicable who fear to be despised.

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should observe in music; and as it is detrimental to the quiet of

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De Retz against each other. Rochefoucauld eagerly espoused his old

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abandon the air and manner natural to them to assume those of the rank

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was not so at all. Though there is nothing I would not do to comfort an

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seem little in a post above it.

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courage, his merit, his tenderness, and good sense surpassed all I ever

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384.--We should only be astonished at still being able to be astonished.

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enough to be wicked. All other goodness is but too often an idleness or