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The apology for the present edition of Rochefoucauld must therefore be

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if we were established.

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201.--He who thinks he has the power to content the world greatly

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LXXXVI.--A true friend is the greatest of all goods, and that of which

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others think that you have only very average abilities."--La Bruyere.]

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we cease to control it, without our consent it changes, and the same

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translations of La Rochefoucauld, hardly any are readable, none are free

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black eyes, small, deep set, eyebrows black and thick but well placed. I

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The space between them is vast, and embraces all other sorts of courage.

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those who use it too much, yet satire should be allowed when unmixed

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objects, from which others carry us away by their force or intensity.

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the pretext of weeping for one dear to us we bemoan ourselves; we

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safe as no one has searched for them.

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46.--The attachment or indifference which philosophers have shown to

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approve of at another.

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Faults, 37, 112, 155, 184, 190, 194, 196, 251, 354, 365,

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["So much they talked, so very little said." Churchill, Rosciad, 550.

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one with each other and with the colour and appearance of the person.

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460.--It would be well for us if we knew all our passions make us do.

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Fickleness, 179, 181, 498.

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-------- for love 459.

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commanded by law.--Montesquieu, {The Spirit Of Laws, }b. 4, c. ii.]

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the result of a great motive.

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because it imposes on all the world, that is the grief of those who

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people; what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the

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difficulty than most men in holding my tongue as to what is told me in

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REFLECTIONS, EXTRACTED FROM MS. LETTERS IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY.*

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so foolish that this does them the greatest good in the world; yet

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or interrupt them; on the contrary, we should enter into their mind and

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Good, 121, 185, 229, 238, 303, XCIII.

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385.--It is equally as difficult to be contented when one has too much

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Valour, 1, 213, 214, 215, 216. SEE Bravery and Courage.

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if we did not want to blame them both.

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["Malvolio. Infirmity{,} that decays the wise{,} doth eve{r} make the

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(To Madame De Sable, Fol. 161, Max. 504.)

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is that we all so easily believe what we wish. (To The Same, Ms., Fol.

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particular interests of their masters, since all those who compose an

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------, true ones, LXXXVI.

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maxims during his retirement from society; and the last from that time

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["In grief the {Pleasure} is still uppermost{;} and the affliction we

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nevertheless a certain compensation of good and evil which renders them

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wound which for a time deprived him of his sight. Before he recovered,

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better increasing of your folly."--Shakespeare. Twelfth Night{, Act I,

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by the precise and terse mode in which the popular writers of that date

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343, 380, 391, 392, 399, 403, 435, 449, IX., CXIX.

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by nothing. He avoids difficult matters with considerable address,

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[Hence the proverb, "A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for his

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brilliant and the most unreal action of his life; it is a sacrifice he

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493.--It appears that men do not find they have enough faults, as they

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indolence for many years supported him with reputation. He preserved the