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pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the

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430, 440, 441, 459, 466, 471, 473, 499, 500, 501,

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326.--Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour itself.

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more or less with those who follow them.

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115.--It is as easy unwittingly to deceive oneself as to deceive others.

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later editions published during his life-time. So much was this the

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reflecting on it, as every man who sees it in its real light regards

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without some kind of talent.

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168.--However deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to

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from a surfeit of matter.

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threaten it, it vainly attempts to break. Yet sometimes it effects that

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LXXV.--And so far it seems to me the philosophy of a lacquey can go; I

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[See this thought elaborated in maxim 504.]

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it is a desire to rule, in the mind it is a sympathy, and in the body

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consuming and destroying both passions and virtues.

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fortune often changes our air and our manners, and augments the air of

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thus makes the poor happy.

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Vanity and those who have guided him, have made him undertake great

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always believe them more sincere with us than with others.

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have played. (See Maxim 367.)

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twofold: firstly, that it is an attempt to give the public a complete

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of truth, a dislike to deception, a wish to compensate our faults and to

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far society is essential to men: all seek for it, and all find it, but

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403.--Fortune sometimes uses our faults to exalt us, and there are

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76.--There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person

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for meditation or retirement."-- Junius, To The Duke Of Bedford, 19th

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general. (1665, No. 232.)

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Rochefoucauld had ordered his followers to murder De Retz.

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taste to criticise it accurately. Some tastes lead us imperceptibly to

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312.--Lovers are never tired of each other,--they always speak of

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passions had a magic power proper to it. Nothing is so close and strong

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And Beautiful{, (1756), Part I, Sect. V}.]

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The fifth count, one of the ministers of Louis XIII., after fighting

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try to make them perceive their faults, so as to give them the merit of

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Great men, what they cannot acquire, LXXXIV.

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others. (1665, No. 103.)

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it is by this quality that we gain the deference of other men, and it is

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satisfy worldly honour, and beyond that will do little else. Some are

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Obligations, 299, 317, 438. SEE Benefits and Gratitude.

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LIX.--Women for the most part surrender themselves more from weakness

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73.--We may find women who have never indulged in an intrigue, but it is

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61.--The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their

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156.--There are persons whose only merit consists in saying and doing

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LIII.--Magnanimity is a noble effort of pride which makes a man master

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XLV.--We do not regret the loss of our friends according to their

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he has every variety of wit.

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Duke's sister, Mdme. de Longueville. This lady, young, beautiful, and

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world, and must be read with some admiration by the philosopher . . . .

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The perusal of the Maxims will suggest to every reader to a greater

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Peace of Mind, VIII.