Maxims

La Rochefoucauld

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a natural conformation of features, I think that even when I have cured
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last edition revised by the author, and published in his lifetime. The
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most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we
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is the most ardent and evil of all, although her violence may be
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afflictions deceives itself. There is another kind not so innocent
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believe that we are beloved.
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weakness and daring though timidity.
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Rochefoucauld's life may be associated with the name of a woman who was
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speak our opinions to our listeners when we find an opportunity without
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This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can
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on the century of Louis XIV. is entitled to the greatest weight, says,
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459.--There are many remedies to cure love, yet none are infallible.
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["It is more common to see perfect love than real friendship."--La
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soon as it passes from doubt to certainty.
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These follow their taste more than their intelligence, because they
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say it with regret) Rochefoucauld tried to murder.
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338.--When our hatred is too bitter it places us below those whom we
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Constancy, 19, 20, 21, 175, 176, 420.
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persons at the present day ever heard of the Memoirs, and the knowledge
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actually write "Love is the..."--he writes "Love of one..." under the
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misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes.
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---- of Women, 466, 471, 499.
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place of being wise." Churchill, Rosciad, 117.]
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281.--Pride, which inspires, often serves to moderate envy.
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"The conversation of gentlemen is one of the pleasures that most amuses
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dispute than of that of the palate or of the choice of colours.
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will help us to form a true conclusion on the different characters of
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firmly to its own opinions as it knows all their force and weight.
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which does not always agree with our natural manner. This change of our
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----, Old age of, 430.
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friend, but to show him his own.
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virtue, that I believe they cannot be censured with justice. To me who
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turn away at a certain point, but we do not want to be mixed up in
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rock, more dangerous in the most important matters than sudden squalls
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319.--If we take the liberty to dwell on their faults we cannot
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whom he loves, and meditating the utmost vengeance that his passion can
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XCV.--The greater part of men have qualities which, like those of
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instead of gratitude, to keep the Queen's adherents on his side. The
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I.--Self-love is the love of self, and of all things for self. It
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mind that can be mentioned, it may mean none in particular. It may mean
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XXXI.--Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more
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useful to them so as to exempt them from annoyance, and when we cannot
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ourselves. (See Maxim 363.)
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lay themselves open to attack in another.
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whatever might be the consequence, to do what I had promised; and I have
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LII.--There are fine things which are more brilliant when unfinished
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writers, of calling actions interested which are done of the most
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acquiring so much on credit, and of undertaking to discharge it. He has
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of the character of De Retz. With his marvellous power of depicting
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taste of the (French) nation, and to give it a spirit of justness