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that the task is far from easy. For many reasons we may be disgusted

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They have always spoken unreservedly to us, we should always do the same

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to every age, but tastes are not always the same, and what is good

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happiness he has who possesses it.

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is rooted out in one place it re-establishes itself in another. When it

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with much fiction. The society of the last half of the seventeenth, and

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the world from great cleverness. (1665, No. 252.)

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Fortune, 1, 17, 45, 52, 53, 58, 60, 61, 154, 212, 227, 323,

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In an edition of Rochefoucauld entitled "Reflexions, ou Sentences et

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metamorphoses, after having solely filled the divers parts of the comedy

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375.--Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

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reproach them with impunity.

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XLVII.--For us to be always good, others should believe that they cannot

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IV.--Moderation is like temperance in eating; we could eat more but we

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----, witty, 451, 456.

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----------, women do not care for, 440.

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incessantly finding in the loved one fresh objects to love, the other

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contraries. It is imperious and obedient, sincere and false, piteous

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thing, the difference lies in the tone and manner of saying them, but

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is but the result of his limited vision that hides from him the extent

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and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always

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it seems to nourish and augment it, it deprives us of knowledge of

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severely blamed, than the maxims of the Duke of Rochefoucauld, and that

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extorta voluptas Et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error." HOR. EP.

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whole application on the utmost frivolities. It finds all its pleasure

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III.--Moderation in good fortune is but apprehension of the shame which

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Variety of mind, R.IV.

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Maxims are extended and elaborated, now appear in English for the first

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12.--Whatever care we take to conceal our passions under the appearances

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215.--Perfect bravery and sheer cowardice are two extremes rarely found.

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fitted for all clever persons; we should select what is to their taste

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mischief to the community as Machiavel, if Machiavel had not known that

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were wholly without goodness.

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admiring what should not be admired, it is oftener from envy that we

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anything imprudent being said.

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of infection than of falling ill when we are well.

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unite and blend them together, and thus render them such that they can

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disowns them, and cannot resolve to avow them. In the night which covers

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XLIII.--We more often place bounds on our gratitude than on our desires

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believe that they are right when fortune backs up their vice or folly.

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feign it where it does not.

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general a person will not wholly follow it. He loves to imitate. We

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taken prisoner in a skirmish at St. Yriex la Perche, and murdered by the

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wonderful, it, with them, hates even itself; it conspires for its own

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Reflections.--Aime Martin. Its best answer is arrived at by reversing

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spoken of this murder "as an admirable reprisal upon the grandson

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(Eight to the week) for sixpence pay." {--Samuel Butler,} Hudibras, Part

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60.--Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she

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"Reflexions Morales."

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71.--There are few people who would not be ashamed of being beloved when