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heart to attach itself to all the qualities of the person we love

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ends; While nature kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance

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King Henry IV, Part II, Act. V, Scene V, King}.

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We have often need of strength and prudence wherewith to oppose the

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occupied with party strife and faction in Paris, Madame de Chevreuse

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284.--There are wicked people who would be much less dangerous if they

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speak of our own matters; from this also their sudden resurrection when

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Library at Paris. And a Series of Reflections which had been previously

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329.--We believe, sometimes, that we hate flattery --we only dislike the

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which fortune has placed beyond their reach. The virtue of the primitive

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376.--Envy is destroyed by true friendship, flirtation by true love.

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of), and decide all questions that come before them by its aid, and

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and the only reason he could assign for these actions was intense

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vanity, sometimes from idleness, oftentimes from fear, and almost always

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the sentiments that coincide with our condition and our appearance, and

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endeavoured to get Madame de Chatillon, the old mistress of the Duc de

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fails to generate." Or that of Addison, who speaks of Rochefoucauld "as

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its own thoughts all that is useless and disagreeable.

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of which professed authors need be jealous."

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and long enough to entitle me to lay claim to a fine head. I have in my

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the war was over, Louis XIV. had attained his majority, the gold of

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trust to appearances.

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them, and they are less than their good qualities. We should often avoid

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194.--The defects of the mind are like the wounds of the body. Whatever

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alike on paper, and yet express a different order of mind.

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232.--Whatever pretext we give to our afflictions it is always interest

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not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn

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which we trust to find so many resources will be far too weak in the

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in our narrative we relate something concerning them; from this we find

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LXVI.--Interest is the soul of self-love, in as much as when the body

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a regiment or on a promenade. There are some who are not content to

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real glory began. Having acted the various parts of soldier, politician,

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believed we had impressed them of our worth. (1665, No. 248.)

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exposed to the chance of offending them when they are out of temper.

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77.--Love lends its name to an infinite number of engagements

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Ambition, 24, 91, 246, 293, 490.

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a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man

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Bel esprit defined, R.II.

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

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haughtiness; so much so that we may truly say that haughtiness is but

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should be great distinction and great accuracy. We should distinguish

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152.--If we never flattered ourselves the flattery of others would not

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agreement with them.

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Occasions. SEE Opportunities.

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containing the Maxims which had appeared in the editions of 1665, 1666,

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Fools, 140, 210, 309, 318, 357, 414, 451, 456,

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143.--It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we

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Detail, Mind given to, R.II.

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["Gravity is the very essence of imposture."--Shaftesbury,

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Rochefoucauld from the Queen's party. A command in the army was offered