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I would that it was always sincere, always discreet, and that it had

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possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it

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The avaricious man, on the other hand, mistakes present advantages for

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Distrust, 84, 86, 335.

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from which demands a little folly.

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190.--Great men should not have great faults.

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----, Novelty in, 274.

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distinctions I cannot explain. Custom explains this in saying that a

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CXXIII.--It is more difficult to hide the opinions we have than to feign

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We should allow reason and good sense to fix the value of things, they

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extremely reserved to those I do not know, and I am not very open with

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has so much power to the prejudice of the future.

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39.--Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of

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Few men, nevertheless, can have unison in many matters without being

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belong to them, are{,} for the greater part{,} ignorant both of the

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with ourselves as seeing that we disapprove at one time of that which we

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party--that of Conde. In August, 1651, the contending parties met in the

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XCVIII.--There are many virtuous women who are weary of the part they

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450, 462, 463, 472, VI, XIX.

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the depths nor pierce the shades of its recesses. Therein it is hidden

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other, equally blind us to the faults of our friends.

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the glory that springs from that quarter, I think with a little labour

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[So Lord Byron{Stanzas, (1819), stanza 3} says of Love-- "Like chiefs of

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129.--It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived

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the good or happy arrangement of our bodily organs.

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body. One Seigneur served under Philip Augustus against Richard Coeur de

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see the effects of this irresolution, although we cannot assign a

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From that time until that great crisis in the history of the French

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divers interests, which fortune, or our own industry, manage to arrange;

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"Translators should not work alone; for good Et Propria Verba do not

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looks, and this harmony, as it is good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant,

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neither taste nor refinement; he is amused by everything and pleased

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thought or movement, so self-love, riven so to speak from its interest,

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that they are nothing new or unfamiliar to him."

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included in a short aphorism, a shrug, and the word "voila," truths

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and it seems to me beyond this that they express themselves with more

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good, be patient when it is bad, and never resort to strong remedies but

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persons we talk with, and readily give them the advantage of deciding

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"I keep the most punctilious civility to women. I do not believe I have

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bringing any change on the society. He should have the power to pass by

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But upon further examination I have resolved with myself that the maxim

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show great sympathy to him for his misfortune, for miserable people are

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former has more in it of greatness and humility, and the greatest merit

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["Every woman who is not absolutely ugly thinks herself handsome. The

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of eulogy, and in the charter of one of the abbeys of Angouleme he is

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bestow on them the sign of our compassion.

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----, Power of, LXXI.

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in himself as not to be able to follow example, or to add to his own,

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A difference exists between a working mind and a business-like mind. We

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vanity more than any other quality of the mind.