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dying with courage, the hope of being regretted, the desire to leave

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abstruse subjects, according to the temper and understanding of the

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-------- in love, 262.

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deceived in the price and in the value, and in these mistakes there is

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496.--Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

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1781. 8 vo. vii. The Gentleman's Library. La Rochefoucauld's Maxims

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generalisation of long experience, without pedantry, without method,

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it are generally only pliant or weak.

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Cardinal De Retz thus paints him:-- "In M. de la Rochefoucauld there was

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and 1675, and which were afterwards omitted; the second, some additional

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whereof the whole of our life is but one long agitation. The sea is its

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author's correspondence and manuscripts, and the third, the Maxims first

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elaborate defence of his patron. After there depicting a man who fancied

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enable us to form a judgment of Rochefoucauld's character. We have, with

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deprived of its soul is without sight, feeling or knowledge, without

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he would have done far better to have known his own mind, and have

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with him deceives himself yet more.

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practise it, some being restrained by fear, others by sense.

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373.--Some tears after having deceived others deceive ourselves.

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that which we have over ourselves. (To The Same, Ms., Fol. 211, Max.

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aspect. We do not see with the same eyes what does and what does not

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390.--We give up more easily our interest than our taste.

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should yield to reason, wherever she appears and from whatever side

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vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men

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not so well know that it is the same to speak of ourselves.

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"Naturally, I have but little curiosity about the majority of things

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conclusion of such distinguished writers on the subject. Each reader

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383.--The desire of talking about ourselves, and of putting our

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XXXIII.--Natural ferocity makes fewer people cruel than self-love.

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Seigneur Guy performed a great tilt at Bordeaux, attended (according

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Simpson Low, Son, and Marston, 188, Fleet Street.

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their indecision makes them change, and they are affected with pleasure

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returned."--Junius's Letter To The King.]

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too like and too exact a picture of human nature. I own it seems to

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body, or their mind, is beginning to fail.

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conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

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LXXX.--Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make

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426.--The charm of novelty and old custom, however opposite to each

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to that last light of French chivalry, Francis I. In 1515 he was created

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341.--The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness

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his lack of penetration. He always had a natural irresoluteness, but I

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dishonour; it is vice which confers dishonour."]

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Self-love, 2, 3, 4, 228, 236, 247, 261, 262, 339, 494, 500,

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professions."--Sir Walter Scott, Quentin Durward.]

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living image; and in the flux and reflux of its continuous waves there

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239.--Nothing flatters our pride so much as the confidence of the great,

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satirical turn, untempered by seriousness, thus often making themselves

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[The fifty following Maxims are taken from the Sixth Edition of the

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persons know how to be old. (To The Same, Fol. 202, Max. 423.)

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choose the time to say it.

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