3,187 passages indexed from Maxims (La Rochefoucauld) — Page 33 of 64
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where to each one puts what construction he pleases.
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keep the original above so you can compare the correct passages:
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who are worthy of exciting it.
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teach the rest to sneer." Pope {Essay On Man, (1733), Epistle To Dr.
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gives under the appearance of blame, and shows the good while feigning a
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which one finds something to polish the wit and strengthen the soul
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Complaisance, 481, R.IV.
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l'esprit et quelques resolutions qu'il prenne pour corriger ses travers
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nothing but debasement, and we suffer misfortunes without regarding
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But what we are most often vexed at is that no one knows how to conform
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believes he has not the power even to bore. He should share in what he
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--------, Great, 159, 433.
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correctness in taste; there are some who have not any falsity either in
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and in the mind. Our self-love is flattered by all that presents itself
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386.--No people are more often wrong than those who will not allow
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and bad ones by the evil of our nature, which shame imprisons until
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him when he heard the news of the death of so much that was dear to
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yet there are some which are special and peculiar to him; his views are
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numbers will indicate where they are to be found in the
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pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit
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for the time his ruling passion. These four ladies are the Duchesse de
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Deceit, 86, 117, 118, 124, 127, 129, 395, 434. SEE ALSO
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passage containing the note (in the text they appear at the bottom of
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been, "if not first, in the very first line" of that most illustrious
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giving, in fact winning everybody in a subtle and delicate manner.
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Silence, 79, 137, 138, CXIV.
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216.--Perfect valour is to do without witnesses what one would do before
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have tends to make me seem more reserved than I am in fact, and as it is
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distinguish the qualities we judge by.
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who defends the bad side, spares him the disgrace of giving way.
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either that of Mr. Hallam, "Concise and energetic in expression, reduced
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be expected, and with all reverence of mind that could be desired.
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inferences which an intercourse with a single class of society scarcely
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X.--Love is to the soul of him who loves, what the soul is to the body
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fortitude with which he bore his sufferings as something to be admired.
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When he recovered his health, he devoted himself to society. Madame
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that they are worthy to be the butt of fortune.
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of life, exhibits itself with its natural face, and is discovered by
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204.--The coldness of women is a balance and burden they add to their
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380, 442, 445, XXIX.
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Hobbes, the author of 'Reflexions Morales,' and the whole set of
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a sign of presumption or opinionatedness. Above all things we should
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["Nemo alienae virtuti invidet qui satis confidet suae." --Cicero In
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346.--If a woman's temper is beyond control there can be no control of
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advanced in force on Bordeaux, and attacked the town. A bloody battle
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and our hopes. (1665, No. 241.)
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help others that on like occasions we may be helped ourselves, and these
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476.--Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.
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or vanity that causes them.
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as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in