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to adopt what was then, as is still in Scotland, a common custom, to

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French epigrams. No other country can show such a list of brilliant

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other severely wounded. Rochefoucauld was much affected by this, but

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we are jealous, and yet we plume ourselves in having been and being able

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and cruel, timid and bold. It has different desires according to the

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One of the persons whom Rochefoucauld patronised and protected, was

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Confidence leaves us less liberty, its rules are stricter, it requires

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think more instructive than others, we should enter indifferently upon

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achieve a reputation for tenderness, weeps to be pitied, weeps to be

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me that I should follow my revenge with even greater keenness than other

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sufficient for us to guide it in the different courses it should hold.

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transmit to his descendants the illustrious surname of La Rochefoucauld.

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XXXII.--Kings do with men as with pieces of money; they make them bear

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Good grace, 67, R.VII.

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no power over either, as to its violence or its duration. (1665, No.

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forbidden when the laws do not concur in the prohibition, and those

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366.--However we distrust the sincerity of those whom we talk with, we

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usurps authority over all the plans and actions of life; imperceptibly

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it is a certain manner what distinguishes us, and which seems to destine

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of the latter is to resemble the former.

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LXXVII.--The labour of the body frees us from the pains of the mind, and

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which our hatred deprived her of. The bad qualities become effaced,

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------, what to study, XCII.

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["Those who have experienced a great passion neglect friendship, and

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408.--The most dangerous folly of old persons who have been loveable is

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the one or diminishing the other. We should make it a rule never to

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enough to own them. (16{74}, No. 375.)

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faction, His life is action."]

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once Indebted and discharged." Milton. Paradise Lost.]

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a patent as the Prince de Marsillac. His widow, Anne de Polignac,

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Memoir by the Chevalier de Chatelain. London, 1868. 12 mo.

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from that that we have in others. (1665, No. 258.)

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example, the celebrated Maxim as to the misfortunes of our friends, was

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state, and to save themselves from sinking under the rule of cardinals

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212.--Most people judge men only by success or by fortune.

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his air and manners with his appearance, nor his style and words with

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169.--Idleness and fear keeps us in the path of duty, but our virtue

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Racine, Boileau. Among his most attached friends was Madame de

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politeness, and we may say a similar species of humanity, which does not

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friendship. I only wish to state its limits to make it true and real.

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We cannot give too great study to find out the manner and the capacity

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always follow in reason the natural inclination which carries us towards

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faults except through vanity.]

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were at Blois, the Duchesse de Chevreuse, one of the beauties of

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endeavours to reach one goal, his heart insensibly drags him towards

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very free, rather inclined to be too much so, for in speaking they

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171.--As rivers are lost in the sea so are virtues in self.

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"His natural bent is to indolence, nevertheless he labours with

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gentleness. In those who appear gentle it is generally only weakness,

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at maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by