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to change itself, it has added that of changing other objects, and

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contrary to strict wisdom, they fit in so well with the most severe

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410.--The greatest effort of friendship is not to show our faults to a

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74.--There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand different

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themselves as far as possible to the feeling and the interests of the

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from his wounds, the war of the Fronde broke out. This war is said

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Advice, 110, 116, 283, 378, CXVII.

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but, when this is done, the actor takes very little pain to make the

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years that followed, while he recovered from his wounds, and wrote his

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love. [------"Faciunt graviora coactae Imperio sexus minimumque libidine

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believe that all gaity in that state of life is very doubtful indeed.

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sufficiently to know myself well; and I will lack neither boldness to

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150.--The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our

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452.--No one believes that in every respect he is behind the man he

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from carelessness. He has borrowed more from his friends than a private

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far from declaring himself the enemy of Cardinal Mazarin with any view

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away from the public good. (1665, No. 282.)

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without deductive reasonings, yet wearing an appearance at least of

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XCII.--It is more necessary to study men than books.

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CXXIV.--Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never

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disagreeable and hardly to be tolerated in old age, but in youth they

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faults that persons admit, which understands how to hide the praise it

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which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.

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I am hardly ever seen in a rage, and I never hated any one. I am not,

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LXV.--We ought to console ourselves for our faults when we have strength

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Normandy. Leaving her at Dieppe, he went into Poitou, of which province

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evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not

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89.--Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.

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{--Lord Byron, }Childe Harold, {Canto} iv., stanza 121.]

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a fool content; that is why most men are miserable.

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hatred as our good qualities.

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the most substantial cleverness.

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though omitted from his last edition, "There is something in the

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153.--Nature makes merit but fortune sets it to work.

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hardly been seen for the last three or four years to laugh above three

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The Parliament of Bordeaux compelled Rochefoucauld to surrender. He did

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were vanquished, the court supremacy established.

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The difference between them is not less than between faces and tempers.

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strong point. He was never fitted for any matter, and I really cannot

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it is difficult to assign a cause for this; no book is perhaps oftener

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me. I like it to be serious and morality to form the substance of it.

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as well as the fortunes of the world. (1665, No. 250.)

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[This is the first hint of the system the author tries to develope. He

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Women, Severity of, 333.

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ingratitude than his benefactor is.

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XXIX.--Men only blame vice and praise virtue from interest. (1665, No.

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230.--Nothing is so infectious as example, and we never do great good or

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never let them see that we pretend to be better informed than they are.

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There is a kind of politeness which is necessary in the intercourse

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