Maxims

La Rochefoucauld

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while thinking in reality of making his friend approve his opinion and
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369.--The violences we put upon ourselves to escape love are often more
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from the French. With notes. London, 1749. 12 mo. v. Maxims and Moral
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the least we miss the greatest.
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love."--La Bruyere. Du Coeur.]
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485.--Those who have had great passions often find all their lives made
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rogue, but one is astonished to find it in a moral treatise." Yet we
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what we read, and the observations we make form the most pleasant and
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speaks of it, few persons have seen it.
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These fifty form the third supplement to this book.
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32.--Jealousy lives upon doubt; and comes to an end or becomes a fury as
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he had some years previously bought the post of governor. He was there
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the author's death. This edition included fifty new maxims, attributed
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very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard
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The description of the "ancien regime" in France, "a despotism tempered
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better fool. Clown. God send you, sir, a speedy infirmity{,} for the
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Bishop Butler, on the other hand, blames the book in no measured terms.
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called compassion."--Hobbes' Leviathan{, (1651), Part I, Chapter VI}.]
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Politeness of Mind, 99.
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275.--Natural goodness, which boasts of being so apparent, is often
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it is the result of self-love, which flatters us with being lucky in our
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hath seen, nor e'er shall see The naked eye, thy form as it should be."
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There are yet many other epithets for the mind which mean the same
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enter too quickly into the recesses of the heart. It often takes pains
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honour of succeeding in that which they have undertaken.
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Maxims of Rochefoucauld".
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Accent, country, 342, XCIV.
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younger branch of the House of Lusignan, was at the commencement of
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and makes us accept everyone's opinion, and another more excusable comes
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duke, and if it proves anything, it is only that the grandfather was not
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smothered by the least interest.
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[In the maxim cited the author relates how a footman about to be broken
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["So many are the advantages which monarchs gain by clemency, so greatly
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the best society of the French Court, he soon became a most finished
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and our hopes; it is quite indifferent whether it has many or one,
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startled as the rest of the world if death meets them in a different
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This harmony makes them decide correctly on matters, and form a correct
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Mankind, 436, XXXVI.
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coolness of that of our friends. (1666, No. 97.)
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the monkish chronicles. As the benefactor of the various abbeys and
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Envy, 27, 28, 280, 281, 328, 376, 433, 476, 486.
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413.--A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.
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passages, and an English imitation by Hazlitt. The titles of the English
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and fills the vacancy of all our wants. (1665, No. 290.)
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however, supplied all deficiencies. By birth and station placed in
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Ridicule, 133, 134, 326, 418, 422.
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relates not only to ourselves, since our interests are often mixed
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Leaguers in cold blood.
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Self-deceit, 115, 452.
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247.--The fidelity of most men is merely an invention of self-love