Maxims

La Rochefoucauld

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425.--Penetration has a spice of divination in it which tickles our
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{The translators' incorrectly cite Thoughts On The Cause Of The Present
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sloth of the soul, Ambition its activity and heat.
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neatness, and give a more agreeable turn to the things they talk about.
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faithless as regards a secret. This is doubtless the hardest test of
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*A La Bibliotheque Du Roi, it is difficult at present (June
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and unrefined, which are often used thoughtlessly when we hold to our
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tyrannize over others; it is never quiet when out of itself, and only
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is not wholly displeasing to us. (1665, No. 99.)
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XXXV.--There are crimes which become innocent and even glorious by their
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182.--Vices enter into the composition of virtues as poison into that of
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CII.--Jealousy is always born with love, but does not always die with
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we wish to be. Thus the world is merely composed of actors.
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inconvenienced with much mind; still of this kind of mind we may say
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such dark colours as we should have expected, judging from what we know
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Brilliant things, LII.
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Indolence. SEE Idleness, and Laziness.
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--------, Difference between it and Confidence, R.I.
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"Ambition does not weary me. I fear but few things, and I do not fear
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pleasure, our consideration. Thus the dead have the credit of tears
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With the general history of that war we have nothing to do; it is far
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confine ourselves to its progress so far as it relates to the Duc de la
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to glory, they strive to render themselves celebrated by showing an
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superficial and imperfect.
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173.--There are different kinds of curiosity: one springs from interest,
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28.--Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to
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triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how
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had long ago defined it--a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the
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those who know more than ourselves, and the hope of advantage over those
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XIII.--When we are tired of loving we are quite content if our mistress
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Men easier to know than Man, 436.
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always occur to one mind."--Luther's Table Talk, iii.
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There is a difference between the taste which in certain objects has
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Madame De Sable, Ms., Fol. 211.)
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470.--All our qualities are uncertain and doubtful, both the good as
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spiritual pride."--Gibbon. Decline And Fall, chap. xv.]
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some agreeable, others disagreeable.
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perceive what we have seen and heard.
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10.--In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions; so
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"Plusieurs diraient en periode quarre que quelques reflexions que fasse
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avoiding all they do not agree with.
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life-time, yet in every English edition this Maxim appears in the body
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has made to his pride under the pretence of devotion; he quits the court
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nearly always striking. It is not so much a book as it is materials for
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LXXXIX.--It is sometimes pleasing to a husband to have a jealous wife;
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aquiline, nor large; nor pointed: but I believe, as far as I can say,
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177.--Perseverance is not deserving of blame or praise, as it is merely
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340.--The wit of most women rather strengthens their folly than their
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Some have a species of instinct (the source of which they are ignorant
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42.--We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.