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475.--The desire to be pitied or to be admired often forms the greater

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461.--Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of life all the

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Idleness, 169, 266, 267, 398, 482, 487, XVIII., LV.

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XXI.--Philosophers, and Seneca above all, have not diminished crimes by

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thoroughly appreciate Rochefoucauld.

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CVIII.--Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

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XLVIII.--A confidence in being able to please is often an infallible

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son, the fourth duke, commanded the regiment of Navarre, and took part

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to them. They know our habits and connexions, and see too clearly not

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Young men, 378, 495.

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With those friends whose truth we know we have the closest intimacy.

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[Si qua volet regnare diu contemnat amantem.--Ovid, Amores, ii. 19.]

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269.--No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

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158.--Flattery is base coin to which only our vanity gives currency.

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----, Approbation of, 201.

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344.--Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance

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Gallantry, 100. SEE Flirtation.

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Such is his own description of himself. Let us now turn to the other

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as tones and manner cannot appear in writing I shall not go into

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the fear of death does somewhat subtract from valour.

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As we should stand at a certain distance to view objects, so we should

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retain all our faults, and they are only covered by pride to hide them

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instead of labor, criticise instead of criticize, etc.); the

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It is not wrong to retain our opinions if they are reasonable, but we

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to forget that they are no longer so.

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cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

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48.--Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things themselves; we

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I do not think that any man of good sense has ever yet believed in it.

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21.--Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and

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"I have all the passions pretty mildly, and pretty well under control.

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["Old men who yet retain the memory of things past, and forget how often

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French philosopher. On the 11th March, 1680, he ended his stormy life in

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240.--We may say of conformity as distinguished from beauty, that it is

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scrupulous, and a spirit of criticism far too severe. I do not dislike

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not so often the result of a great design as of chance.

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Treachery, 120, 126.

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edition, the sixth, was published in 1693, about thirteen years after

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themselves that they are grateful.

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and nature of things. Thus, when a female is adverse to us, and she

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avert evils, seem to participate in them, insensibly obliterate without

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up with those of others; it requires great delicacy not to expose

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CI.--There are those who avoid our jealousy, of whom we ought to be

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humility." --Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Devil's Thoughts}

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power of selflove, he whitens the blackest actions of his mistress, and

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novelty, lassitude and distaste. It is capricious, and one sees it

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1.--What we term virtue is often but a mass of various actions and

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Lion, and was made prisoner at the battle of Gisors. The eighth

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348.--When one loves one doubts even what one most believes.

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together."--Lord Chesterfield, Letter 129.]

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his old flame, the Duchesse de Chevreuse, who had received the same