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------, Sovereign, 244.

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passions like ambition and love that can triumph over others. Idleness,

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enhance the value of what we give.

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published in 1692. While the Reflections, in which the thoughts in the

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Though so often translated, there is not a complete English edition

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186.--We do not despise all who have vices, but we do despise all who

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LXIII.--The greatest skill of the least skilful is to know how to submit

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3.--Whatever discoveries have been made in the region of self-love,

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occupied Bordeaux. Cardinal Mazarin and Marechal de la Meilleraie

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London, 1775. 8 vo. vi. Maxims and Moral Reflections of the Duke de la

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struggle to persuade us in the way we wish. For it is this which betrays

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those who have done us one.

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suicide regard it as a light matter, and are as much alarmed and

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attractive, accurate.

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and dignities to which they have arrived. There are some who assume

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----, Praise and censure of, 454.

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"Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."--Sir J. Mackintosh.

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------ of the Mind, R.II.

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the fact was never denied by his family, through whose permission they

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II.--Passions are only the different degrees of the heat or coldness of

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The third duke fought in many of the earlier campaigns of Louis XIV. at

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252.--It is as common to change one's tastes, as it is uncommon to

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English edition of Rochefoucauld's works as a moralist. The body of the

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more, I have ability, but a mind spoilt by melancholy, for though I

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on. Or wish to make a rival's bosom bleed: But the {Tenth} instance will

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among gentlemen, it makes them comprehend badinage, and it keeps

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were we not deceived.

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in its entirety. He should not only control and guard his and his voice,

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players."--Shakespeare, As You Like It{, Act II, Scene VII, Jaques}.

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456.--Sometimes we meet a fool with wit, never one with discretion.

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117.--The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares

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207.--Folly follows us at all stages of life. If one appears wise 'tis

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463.--There is often more pride than goodness in our grief for our

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nature please in proportion as we know the air, the style, the manner,

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destroying, it at least suspends their operation.

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will form his own opinion of the merits of the author and his book. To

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which it animates. (1665, No. 77.)

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seat while they remain there."--La Bruyere: Du Coeur.]

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reading with an intelligent person, for then we reflect constantly upon

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337.--There are certain good qualities as there are senses, and those

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cruel than the cruelty of those we love.

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354.--There are certain defects which well mounted glitter like virtue

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lover cannot with justice complain of the inconstancy of his mistress,

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154.--Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

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There are some so beautiful that everyone can see and feel their beauty.

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have scriptural authority for it: "Deceiving and being deceived."--2

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Forgetfulness, XXVI.

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Yet it is necessary to listen to those who talk, we should give them the

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not known, vanity renders the others easy enough.

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object of dread to him, and flattering himself with the false vanity of