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their currency value, and not at their true worth. (1665, No. 165.)

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which conceals it from itself does not hinder it from seeing that

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system and to confound pride, vanity, interest and egotism with self

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themselves to be wrong.

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the good ones appear with a redoubled advantage; we even summon all our

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fancies that it abandons its pleasure it merely changes or suspends its

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though they have some connection, they are yet very different. The

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It is unfortunate to have a satirical turn without affecting to be

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to push a good argument too hard, when we have found one. Civility often

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skill, and sustained and managed with such sense and grace, that they

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See also Chesterfield's defence of this in his 129th letter; "they who

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even deserve to be admired.

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Actions, 1, 7, 57, 58, 160, 161, 382, 409, CXX.

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----, Virtue of, 205, 220, XC.

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endeavours to secure its object by byeways and short cuts. This conduct

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Angounois. Our chief knowledge of this feudal lord is drawn from

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doing honour to her appearance."

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the cause of his taking the side of Conde in the subsequent civil war.

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she loves is love." {--Lord Byron, }Don Juan, Canto iii., stanza 3. "We

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116.--Nothing is less sincere than the way of asking and giving advice.

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311.--If there be men whose folly has never appeared, it is because it

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indulgence to justify the war she has made upon us. Now although all

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Pride, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 228, 234, 239, 254, 267, 281,

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345.--Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.

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360.--We are more humiliated by the least infidelity towards us, than by

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that gentlemen should have with each other. It would be idle to show how

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--------, Good, 88, 337, 462.

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she comes, she alone should govern our opinions, we should follow her

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Mazarin, the arms of Turenne, had been successful, the French nobility

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Impossibilities, 30.

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310.--Sometimes there are accidents in our life the skilful extrication

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Opportunities, 345, 453, CV.

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["And if in fact she takes a {"}Grande Passion{"}, It is a very serious

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from the most far-seeing eyes, therein it takes a thousand imperceptible

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renders the most foolish man clever.

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381.--The struggle we undergo to remain faithful to one we love is

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suffice him; he is obliged to call other passions to the help of his

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enjoy. But the miser possesses and enjoys nothing but the pleasure of

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they owe a great part of the blame or praise which is given them.

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suffering injustice.

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LXXXIV.--The great ones of the earth can neither command health of body

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occasions I have heard from people of good understanding, 'That as to

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to him, but by the Queen's orders refused.

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most yet obliged to praise it.

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not be surprised if it is sometimes united to the rudest austerity, and

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relate to us. Our taste is guided by the bent of our self-love and

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273.--There are persons of whom the world approves who have no merit

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5.--The duration of our passions is no more dependant upon us than the

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Every kind of conversation, however witty it may be, is not equally

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health by a severe regimen. (Ibid, No. 298.)