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character they leave{,} and of the character they assume."--Burke,

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280.--The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the

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French writers of maxims. Pascal, De Retz, La Rochefoucauld, La Bruyere,

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25.--We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.

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love, and one is always more ready to sacrifice the peace of the loved

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when it runs after that upon which itself is eager. It is made up of

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And the pains we take to persuade others as well as ourselves amply show

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489.--However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the

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Desires, 439, 469, LXXXII, LXXXV.

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125.--The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally

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419.--We may seem great in a post beneath our capacity, but we oftener

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417.--In love the quickest is always the best cure.

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XII.--Justice in those judges who are moderate is but a love of their

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reason must teach us to manage our estate and our confidence, while

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romantic or blind enough to deny what Rochefoucauld and Swift have

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published in 1693. The only copy I have seen is in the

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pass away in that gay society without some troubles. At the passage of

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collection of maxims, by Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld."

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or weariness on their friends' judgment. Others are always prejudiced,

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402.--What we find the least of in flirtation is love.

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the great philosopher for administering consolation to the idle, the

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237.--No one should be praised for his goodness if he has not strength

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LXXXV.--Before strongly desiring anything we should examine what

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most illustrious families among the French noblesse. Descended from the

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CXIII.--The harm that others do us is often less than that we do

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We should hide from them nothing that concerns us, we should always show

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nor repose of mind, and they buy always at too dear a price the good

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["That was excellently observed, say I, when I read an author when his

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subduceretur.--Tacitus, Ann. iv.]

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I do not pretend, from what I say, that each should so wrap himself up

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distant objects as if present; he comprehends and grasps the greatest,

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greatness, and when these two qualities are united in the same mind they

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in all times of life. Young persons have usually a cheerful and

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Evils, 121, 197, 269, 454, 464, XCIII.

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one there finds a mildness one does not meet with among ourselves,

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178.--What makes us like new studies is not so much the weariness we

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them. (1665, No. 144.)

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65.--There is no praise we have not lavished upon Prudence; and yet she

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or manner that could direct the curiosity of others towards that which

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regained his liberty to fall a victim to the "bloody infamy" of St.

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judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

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prefix the name of his estate to his surname, and thus to create and

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should I pretend otherwise. So great circumvention, and so great

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Dishonour, 326, LXIX.

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CXIX.--Fortune discovers our vices and our virtues, as the light makes

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death. I allude to that contempt of death which the heathen boasted they

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66.--A clever man ought to so regulate his interests that each will fall

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than others, although they are not so loveable. (1665, No. 301.)

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131.--The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to

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should have (1665, No. 260.)

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