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504. SEE Courage and Valour.

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Employments, 164, 419, 449.

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thus when weak we boast of our obstinacy.

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[See maxim 450, where the author states, what we take from our other

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REFLECTIONS; OR, SENTENCES AND MORAL MAXIMS

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should not abuse them. They should seldom let it be perceived that they

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courage. (1665, No. 236.)

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["Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die." Pope: Essay On Man,

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179.--We sometimes complain of the levity of our friends to justify our

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accuses himself, he condemns his condemnations, and by the miraculous

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Bravery, 1, 213, 214, 215, 216, 217, 219, 220, 221, 365,

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109.--Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood, age retains

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the author of the maxims, was one of the most illustrious members of the

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if any one axes me Why? I gies 'em a rap with my Crook, 'Tis constancy

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LVIII.--It is much easier to take love when one is free, than to get rid

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----, Effect of absence on, 276.

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than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our

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they are the slaves of their tastes, which they adhere to in everything.

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----------, Conformity of Manners with, R.7.

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faults we add to our pride.]

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XIX.--The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride;

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more than his memory. The generality of his qualities are false, and

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none have so many contradictory opinions been given.

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impossible task of trying to refine a boorish young Briton, in "cutting

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303.--Whatever good quality may be imputed to us, we ourselves find

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us for great things; it is the value we insensibly set upon ourselves;

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praise, and let them see we praise more from our choice than from

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taught people to think, and to comprise their thoughts in a lively,

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depreciation, in speaking of the gifts one has, seems to me to hide a

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another. This constancy is merely inconstancy fixed, and limited to the

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Money, Man compared to, XXXII.

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244.--Sovereign ability consists in knowing the value of things.

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man who will run over land and sea for his own interest becomes suddenly

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it."--Montesquieu, Esprit Des Lois, Lib. VI., C. 21.]

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[Yet Lord Bacon says "A wise man will make more opportunities than he

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["The proper study of mankind is man."--Pope {Essay On Man, (1733),

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of Anne of Austria. Rochefoucauld had sacrificed all to her; even the

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have of the old or the wish for change as the desire to be admired by

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Men will freely expose themselves at the beginning of an action, and

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8.--The passions are the only advocates which always persuade. They are

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217.--Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul which raises it

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There is a difference between an ardent and a brilliant mind, a fiery

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40.--Interest blinds some and makes some see.

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truly pride transforms itself in a thousand ways, and is never so well

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more capable of keeping men to their duty than gratitude."--Fragments

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as to utilise those that offer themselves.

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96.--A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with

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majority of children please. It is because they are wrapt up in the air

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suspicion of age no woman, let her be ever so old, forgives."--Lord

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languishing as she is, does not often fail in being mistress; she