Maxims

La Rochefoucauld

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steadily because his absences make him lose his way. They are very
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an argument, and I often of my own free will engage in one; but I
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-- Of a Citizen, 393.
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but rely more on our nature than on our fallible reason, which might
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experiments upon themselves without considering that what suits one
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CIX.--Little minds are wounded by the smallest things. (See Maxim 357.)
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the Queen brought him back to his old love Mdlle. d'Hautefort, and led
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wishes or interests of others.
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1665, it is omitted from the 2nd and 3rd, and reappears for the first
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qualities of their fellows, a high place should be reserved for the
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For the present I shall speak of that particular kind of intercourse
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the heart."--Aime Martin. But Bonhome, in his L'art De Penser, says
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Temperament, 220, 222, 297, 346.
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propriety of women, that it is often merely the art of appearing chaste.
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I, XVII, XXVIII, XXXIII, LXVI, LXXIV.
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from Paris to Brussels. Into this plan he entered with all his youthful
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so, and returned nominally to Poitou, but in reality in secret to Paris.
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[See Maxim 249 which is an illustration of this.]
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they, too, have need to be guided and led by reason, and accommodate
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cannot aid us in enduring them.
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XCIV.--The accent and character of one's native country dwells in the
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Intrepidity, 217, XL.
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This completed Rochefoucauld's active life.
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badly. I have white teeth, and fairly even. I have been told I have
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common to find people of the latter class, very rare to find those of
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Memoirs that the only persons she could then trust were himself and
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167.--Avarice is more opposed to economy than to liberality.
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grief will end only with their life. This sad and distressing vanity is
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disappointment of the passionate love, the high hopes then formed, the
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(fabled) Remora, she can stop the greatest vessels, she is a hidden
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------, Distinction between it and Friendship, R.IV.
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the clemency spoken of is nothing more than an expression of the policy
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friends as payment, renders them indebted to us.
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492.--Avarice often produces opposite results: there are an infinite
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ix. Maxims and Moral Reflections of the Duke de la Rochefoucauld: with a
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the smallest interests (which has indeed never been his weak point,)
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long if she was not governed and sustained by good sense, temper, and by
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fortune, are resources which should not be passed over. But we must not
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[A feeble imitation of that great thought "All folly comes from
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As to the book, Mr. Hallam says:--"Among the books in ancient and
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450.--Our pride is often increased by what we retrench from our other
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medicines. Prudence collects and blends the two and renders them useful
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Liberality, 167, 263.
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"I have virtuous sentiments, good inclinations, and so strong a desire
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248.--Magnanimity despises all, to win all.
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Nature, 53, 153, 189, 365, 404.
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and it is not always from valour or from chastity that men are brave,
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85.--We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful
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unwittingly quoted, none certainly oftener unblushingly pillaged; upon
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317.--'Tis a small misfortune to oblige an ungrateful man; but it is