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205.--Virtue in woman is often the love of reputation and repose.

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But it is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay

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much of the invective of Junius traced to its source in Rochefoucauld.

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Raillery is a kind of mirth which takes possession of the imagination,

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determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die

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412.--Whatever disgrace we may have deserved, it is almost always in our

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substance. It is inconstant through inconstancy, of lightness, love,

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415.--Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity.

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Wise Man, who is a, 203, XCI.

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449.--When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without

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wherein they can have any interest.

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34.--If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.

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98.--Everyone praises his heart, none dare praise their understanding.

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299.--Almost all the world takes pleasure in paying small debts; many

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penetrates, divines all: so that we might think that each of its

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having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our

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de Sevigne describes, we know not; but one, or both, contributed to

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LXIV.--We always fear to see those whom we love when we have been

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But Richelieu of course discovered this plot, and Rochefoucauld was,

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or injudicious arrangement of the little things of daily occurrence.

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favours false merit than does justice to true.

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["In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all her others what

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ceased to be beloved.

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merits, but according to OUR wants, and the opinion with which we

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292.--One may say of temper as of many buildings; it has divers aspects,

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become incapable of great things.

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Stages of Life, 405.

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virtues than the common, but those only who have greater designs. (1665,

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who hazard their lives to take a city or to conquer a province are

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manifest known interest, merely for the gratification of a present

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we shall thereby more easily find people who will lend.

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Blois. His son, who was then at Court with him, was, upon the pretext of

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untranslatable." Notwithstanding there are no less than eight English

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tell the reason. His glance was not sufficiently wide, and he could not

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145.--We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those

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to Froissart) to the Lists by some two hundred of his kindred and

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Preoccupation, trouble, all that concern us, present it to us in another

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them even when they appear most trustworthy.

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------, always pleasing, R.VII.

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There is an air which belongs to the figure and talents of each

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The mind has a great part to do in so great a work, but it is not merely

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6.--Passion often renders the most clever man a fool, and even sometimes

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uncertain and confused, so too, are our tastes; we do not see things

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256.--In all professions we affect a part and an appearance to seem what

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XIV.--The first impulse of joy which we feel at the happiness of our

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For some three years Rochefoucauld remained at Verteuil, waiting the

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what was passing at Paris, sent with his father. The result of the exile

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to narrate, and seeks to dazzle all his listeners indifferently by his

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they could not avoid going, and being unable to prolong their lives

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347.--We hardly find any persons of good sense, save those who agree