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and pleasant if I had none but what belonged to me constitutionally; but

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Reason, 42, 105, 325, 365, 467, 469, XX, R.VI.

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155.--There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities,

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with--"it is the fever of health, the folly of reason."]

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CXI.--That which makes us so bitter against those who do us a shrewd

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more, giving them leave to consider themselves free to talk of what they

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LXXIV.--God has permitted, to punish man for his original sin, that he

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is what I like best. But, above all, I have the greatest pleasure in

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and manner nature has given them, and are ignorant of any other. They

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XVIII.--There are none who press so heavily on others as the lazy ones,

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XXXIX.--Whatever variety and change appears in the world, we may remark

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it are born the ridiculous persuasions it has of itself, thence come its

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advantage of not knowing to the full when we have penetrated the depth

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for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth, and that with all its

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382.--Our actions are like the rhymed ends of blank verses (Bouts-Rimes)

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220.--Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and

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{The date of the previous two maxims is incorrectly cited as 1665 in

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good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to

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Maxims and Reflections, in four parts. By the Duke de la Rochefoucauld.

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409.--We should often be ashamed of our very best actions if the world

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remarking all their beauties.

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corrections. To this edition were added two Supplements; the first

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Some apology must be made for an attempt "to translate the

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if he were assured of getting off scot-free; so that it is certain that

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from others, and often from ourselves.

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["Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong." Dryden, Absalom And

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488.--The calm or disturbance of our mind does not depend so much on

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he is insensibly removed from the truth. Nearly every one falls into

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allows men to spare themselves. There is even a more general discretion

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the same matter, as the lack of intelligence makes us hesitate at each

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peace after so much strife, a loyal subject after so much treason.

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to allow us to see all that our friends know, while they have still the

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imprisonment with firmness, and owed his liberty solely to his own

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the name of one of the muses, so each of these four periods of La

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benefits, but the equality with which they are received, and may be

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we want hidden, increase curiosity, entitling the recipients to know

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excuse we say things are impossible.

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and lover with but small success, he now commenced the part of moralist,

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Benefits, 14, 298, 299, 301, CXXII.

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merit of its objects, that its own taste embellishes and heightens them;

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than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give

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cannot find her origin on earth. Truly she is produced from an infinity

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We are false in different ways. There are some men who are false from

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was the struggle of the French nobility against the rule of the Court;

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31.--If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting

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and more of the ostentation than of the true greatness of courage. He

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351.--We have much trouble to break with one, when we no longer are in

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24.--When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance

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the care they have taken to acquire it by the smallest means.

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Rochefoucauld, the various editions were but reprints of the preceding

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