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339.--We only appreciate our good or evil in proportion to our

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and in the course of years, whence we may fairly conclude that it is

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Francis, the author, was born on the 15th December 1615. M. Sainte Beuve

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325.--We often comfort ourselves by the weakness of evils, for which

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with life, but for none may we despise it. Not even those who commit

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bottom of a matter--but beyond it. (See Maxim 377.)

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LXXXII.--It is more easy to extinguish the first desire than to satisfy

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the flash and open declaration of pride. (1665, No. 37.)

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trace the contests of the factions--the course of the intrigues. We may

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-------- of Death, 504.

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478.--Fancy does not enable us to invent so many different

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pleases when not insipid.

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never to wound their self-love.

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which is readily converted into harshness.

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462.--The same pride which makes us blame faults from which we believe

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Though the gifts of the mind are infinite, they can, it seems to me, be

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love's-sake, as to show they were worthy of being beloved.

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Torcy, Lille, Cambray, and was dangerously wounded at the passage of

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the author will be found in the remarks of a countryman of his own, as

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75.--Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both

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From the time he ceased to take part in public life, Rochefoucauld's

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it, is the effect of pride and laziness. We wish to find the guilty, and

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362.--Most women do not grieve so much for the death of their lovers for

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air, a manner, which renders everything in conversation agreeable or

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is, perhaps, from this love of epigram, that we find so many eminent

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308.--Moderation is made a virtue to limit the ambition of the great;

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of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful and perfect

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XCVII.--Most women do not weep for the loss of a lover to show that they

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of himself, to make him master of all things. (1665, No. 271.)

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["Women have an entertaining tattle, and sometimes wit, but for solid

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107.--One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

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bias towards the pleasure of being loved, the difficulty of refusing,

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others. It is one of the devices of Pride to lower us to raise us; and

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422, 443, 460, 471, 477, 484, 485, 486, 500, II.

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Conduct, 163, 227, 378, CXVII.

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the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and

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edition, were still retained in the body of the work. To give but one

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us."--Junius, 5th Oct. 1771.]

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litterature." Paris, 1731. They were first published with the Maxims in

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little infidelities.

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do not remember that it is not so well to speak of ourselves. (See Maxim

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person could ever hope to be able to repay; he has felt the vanity of

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50.--Those who think they have merit persuade themselves that they are

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and hatching treason with Cinq Mars and De Thou.

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[La Rochefoucauld is content to paint the age in which he lived. Here

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Vice, 182, 186, 187, 189, 191, 192, 195, 218, 253, 273,

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On the Cardinal causing the Princes de Conde and Conti, and the Duc de

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11.--Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to

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447.--Propriety is the least of all laws, but the most obeyed.

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time. And secondly, that it is an attempt (to quote the preface of the