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it pleases. It is inconstant, and besides the changes which arise

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can undertake business without turning it to our own interest. Some are

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441.--As in friendship so in love, we are often happier from ignorance

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and often foregoes great future advantages for small present interests.

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433.--The most certain sign of being born with great qualities is to be

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ever an indescribable something. From his infancy he always wanted to

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454.--There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by

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"I am," says he, "of a medium height, active, and well-proportioned. My

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355.--Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater

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Mars sent to the scaffold, himself betrayed by men whom he had trusted,

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133.--The only good examples are those, that make us see the absurdity

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a taste fixed and independent of that of their friends, they follow

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["Those who quit their proper character{,} to assume what does not

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dignity, which is always false when it is too marked, and when it is not

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dangerous to use them.

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XXVIII.--Self-love takes care to prevent him whom we flatter from being

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Rochefoucauld desired peace because of his dangerous wounds and ruined

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Sable, Fol. 223, Max. 252.)

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Cunning, 126, 129, 394, 407.

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We dread still more to show falseness in taste than in mind. Gentleness

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["Pride bestowed on all a common friend."--Pope, Essay On Man, Ep. ii.,

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The sixth duke, the friend of Condorcet, was the last of the long line

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the Imperialists at the height of their fame. It proves the truth of

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XV.--In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which

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the remark of Tacitus, "Populus neminem sine aemulo sinit."-- Tac. Ann.

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Writing to her daughter, she says, "Believe me, it is not for nothing he

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396.--We keep our first lover for a long time--if we do not get a

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courage of so great a number of brave men, is from meeting death in a

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259.--The pleasure of love is in loving, we are happier in the passion

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love of selection since it is too ingrained in us to be in our power to

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LI.--Truth is foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for

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I remain without speaking a word, or give no meaning to what I say. I am

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exaggerated or inappropriate praise becomes the most severe satire."--

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92.--To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him

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extraordinary adventures, and his imagination often supplies him with

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honoured by being unhappy, in order to persuade others and themselves

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manners which make all the difference between phrases which seem all

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meaning. The cutting cynicism of the morality was built on the ruins of

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Yet I also know how to enjoy it when trifling; and if I do not make

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------, How they should be kept, R.I.

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the manner advice was generally given there was no reason I thought to

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that we know are set for us. We are never so easily deceived as when

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464.--There exists an excess of good and evil which surpasses our

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Afflictions, 233, 355, 362, 493, XCVII, XV.

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VII.--One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be

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23.--Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from

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amorem carminum simulabat quo velaret animum et fratris aemulationi

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everywhere and upon everything; it subsists on nothing; it accommodates

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There are some lovely, it is true, but which are wearisome.

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edition of 1749) "to do the Duc de la Rochefoucauld the justice to make

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