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93.--Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact

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easy humour, docility of character, and weakness in submitting to

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were published in 1665. Conde and Turenne were after their campaign with

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parallel passages pointed out in Familiar Words.]

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and object according to her opinions."-- Rousseau, Emile.]

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395.--We are often less unhappy at being deceived by one we loved, than

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Sincerity is an openness of heart, which shows us what we are, a love

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deceives himself, but he who thinks that the world cannot be content

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111.--The more we love a woman the more prone we are to hate her.

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a well-regulated mind, which only serves to weaken the heart, and which

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Christians, like that of the first Romans, was very frequently guarded

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example and fashion which generally form the standard of taste.

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332.--Women do not know all their powers of flirtation.

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be redeemed. The mistakes of one sin find a retreat in patriotism, those

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-------- of Friends, XV.

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Temper, 47, 290, 292.

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Interest, 39, 40, 66, 85, 172, 187, 232, 253, 305, 390.

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paralyzed when engaged for that of others; from this arises that sudden

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truthfulness in the remainder of my picture, for I have studied myself

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146.--Usually we only praise to be praised.

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he wishes to conceal.

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63.--The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our

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we may conceal our passions under the veil, etc., there is always some

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1871) to assign a name to the magnificent collection of

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their intellect is cultivated, I prefer their society to that of men:

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A well regulated mind sees all things as they should be seen, appraises

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way different from what they imagined, when it shows itself nearer

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["Yet there are some, they say, who have had None}; But those who

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work comprises the Maxims as the author finally left them, the first

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Although all the qualities of mind may be united in a great genius,

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yet save his labour, not often obscure, and never wearisome, an evident

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possessing; he risks nothing, gives nothing, hopes nothing, his life is

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who was {with} him continually during his last illness, speaks of the

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A clever, pliant, winning mind knows how to avoid and overcome

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the great expectations of the future. Both desire to possess and

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De vaines terreurs sont pleins. En sage que rien n'offense, Livrez-vous

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257.--Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to conceal

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Novelty in study, 178.

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activity in pressing business, and reposes with indifference when it is

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absurd to try the effect of self-esteem and to think it will enable us

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mind and understanding.

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turns her hate and persecution against us, self-love pronounces on her

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danger of their reopening.

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[In the edition of 1665 this maxim stands as No. 200. We never admit our

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80.--What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is

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mo. iv. Moral Maxims of the Duke de la Rochefoucauld. Translated

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"He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility,

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blocks with a razor."

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86.--Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

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the Rhine. From his bravery he rose to high favour at Court, and was