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{There are numerous corrections necessary for this quotation; I will

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behind us a good reputation, the assurance of being enfranchised from

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of our body for our happiness, has also given us pride to spare us the

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{Reflections On The Revolution In France, (1790), Paragraph 19}.]

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VI.--Pride, as if tired of its artifices and its different

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l'autre MISANTHROPE."

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Ills, 174. SEE Evils.

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care we take to heal them the scars ever remain, and there is always

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centuries--the rhymed words at the end of a line being given for others

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beloved."--Hobbes{Leviathan, (1651), Part I, Chapter VI}.]

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226.--Too great a hurry to discharge of an obligation is a kind of

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army, on a campaign, and here he found the one love of his life, the

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and who reasoned and acted consequentially for four and twenty hours

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XI.--As one is never at liberty to love or to cease from loving, the

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Rochefoucauld. His little book of maxims, which I would advise you to

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has an extraordinary memory, more energy than polish in his words, an

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he was more or less engaged in plotting against his enemy the Cardinal,

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["The first foundation of friendship is not the power of conferring

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condition, a weariness of war, the fear of some unlucky accident.

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[So Massillon, in one of his sermons, "Vice pays homage to virtue in

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Wit, 199, 340, 413, 415, 421, 502.

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sees and notices the smallest matters; his thoughts are elevated, broad,

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interests it advances and establishes its own.

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XCIII.--Good and evil ordinarily come to those who have most of one or

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the tokens of their friendship, yet for their misfortunes we always owe

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Age, 222, 405, LXXIII. SEE Old Age.

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sedate manner usually degenerates into impertinence.

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As regards ourselves our taste has not this all-important discernment.

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their enchantment is at an end.

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text of that edition has been used for the present translation. The next

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returned the burlesque verse-- "I sits with my toes in a Brook, And

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49.--We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.

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160.--However brilliant an action it should not be esteemed great unless

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Some may have a motive for confiding in us, towards whom we have no

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All men want to be different, and to be greater than they are; they seek

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beyond the vices they use in the affairs of life.

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text; footnotes are indicated by * and appear immediately following the

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our taste or our pleasure when we prefer our friends to ourselves;

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either from their jealousy or pre-occupation or want of intelligence,

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dispositions than their fortunes.

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------, latent, 344, XCV.

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other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

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do not keep it ourselves. (1665, No. 100.)

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always a kind of falseness.

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robbery is called financial skill, and the unjust capture of provinces

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does. There are others again whose cleverness is limited to their own

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Richelieu an opportunity of ridding Paris of his opposition. When those

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last for long. Society may subsist between those who are our inferiors

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{No date or number is given for this maxim}

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the Duc and the Cardinal. She says:-- "Paul de Gondi Cardinal de Retz