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84.--It is more disgraceful to distrust than to be deceived by our

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Cleverness, 162, 269, 245, 399.

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neither weakness nor interest. I know it is hard to place proper limits

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[See Burns{, For A' That An A' That}-- "The rank is but the guinea's

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Then we should modestly use all the modes abovementioned to show our

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the miseries of life and being no longer dependent on the wiles of

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["How ill {white} hairs become {a} fool and jester."-- Shakespeare,

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[This epigraph which is the key to the system of La Rochefoucauld, is

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united and amalgamated with that which nature has given us. We should

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raise it infinitely above others.

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147.--Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to

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128.--Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy, true delicacy is

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without opposing the opinions of others, and without seeming to ignore

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It is possible to have a serious turn of mind, and yet to talk

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67.--What grace is to the body good sense is to the mind.

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Byron, }Don Juan, canto xii. stanza 77.]

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pursues because it wishes for them. It is silly, and often throws its

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so to love those whom we esteem much more than ourselves.

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His brother Crito cured him, when he infinitely regretted the time of

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one has ever yet taken the pains to enlarge and expand his mind to the

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translators' comments are in square brackets [...] as they are in the

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that we peril in so many ways both our peace and our life.

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well not to boast about it. (See Maxim 368.)

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change one's inclinations.

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of making themselves masters of the world, was probably but an effect of

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reconcile her to us, our sole self interest gives her back the lustre

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was Rochefoucauld's marriage. With the exception that his wife's name

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[The allusion to Conde and Turenne gives the date at which these maxims

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temper, so they are often followed from custom or advantage. We follow

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Vanity, 137, 158, 200, 232, 388, 389, 443, 467, 483.

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by our friends, yet still we are often content to be thus served by

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generally back my opinion with too much warmth, and sometimes, when the

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imperceptibly affect our will. They advance in combination, and

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imagination that a like calamity may befal himself{;} and therefore is

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97.--We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two

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290.--There are as many errors of temper as of mind.

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them with equal truth, our virtues and our vices, without exaggerating

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d'esprit."--Montesquieu.

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d'entretenir, Notre ame, c'est cet homme amoureux de lui meme, Tant

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expressed their thoughts. To a people naturally inclined to think that

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58.--It would seem that our actions have lucky or unlucky stars to which

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de Nemours was soon after killed in a duel. The war went on, and after

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obtain things of little use to it which are even hurtful, but which it

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another from pride, which springs from a desire of knowing what others

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of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others is to try

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423.--Few know how to be old.

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ascribed by the editor to Rochefoucauld, and as his family allowed them

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199.--The desire to appear clever often prevents our being so.

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----------, rarity of, R.III.

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degrade it, but yet my experience does not convince me that it degrades

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