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380.--Fortune makes visible our virtues or our vices, as light does

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164.--It is much easier to seem fitted for posts we do not fill than for

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to win confidence; a method to place us above others and to render us

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mortification of knowing our imperfections.

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--------, kinds of, R.VI.

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["The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy

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Montesquieu, and Vauvenargues, each contributed to the rich stock of

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["Vanity bids all her sons be brave and all her daughters chaste and

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Brilliancy of Mind, R.II.

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Virtue of Women, 1, 220, 367, XCVIII.

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words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our

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357.--Little minds are too much wounded by little things; great minds

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peintres legitimes, Et quant au canal, c'est celui Qui chacun sait, le

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Good qualities, 29, 90, 337, 365, 397, 462.

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avoid often talking of ourselves and giving ourselves as an example;

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17.--The moderation of those who are happy arises from the calm which

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435.--Luck and temper rule the world.

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Flirtation, 107, 241, 277, 332, 334, 349, 376, LXIV.

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confidence placed in him by eager and disinterested zeal, in doing which

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that death, when near, will seem the same as at a distance, or that our

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334.--Women can less easily resign flirtations than love.

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they possess; they take their style and manner at chance. They make

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reminds us of Rochefoucauld. Some examples from both are given in the

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A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

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of reciprocal interests, and an exchange of favours--in fact it is but a

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sometimes work with intense eagerness and with incredible labour to

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Sentiment, 255, R.VI.

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and that our enemies have no good qualities; but in fact we are not far

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not become us. A magistrate is false when he flatters himself he is

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Characteristics, 229.]

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passions, it is that which is concealed at the bottom of the heart and

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trifles well said, and that I do not find great amusement in that manner

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184.--We admit our faults to repair by our sincerity the evil we have

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interests of himself and his friends. He has taken part in several

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translations, or so-called translations, have appeared; one American, a

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spirit travels further and faster, while a brilliant mind is sparkling,

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200.--Virtue would not go far did not vanity escort her.

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or manners, and that there are no good copies.

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words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

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assume, and which they cultivate with so great assiduity that at length

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the fourth in 1675, 413. In this last edition we first meet with the

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371.--It is generally the fault of the loved one not to perceive when

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So we say that a man has only one kind of wit, that he has several, that

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their posts. Some may be found whose courage is strengthened by small

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our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to

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different things in the same way, with the same difference as we should

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non ganeo et profligator sed erudito luxu. --Tacit. Ann. xvi.]

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make our resistance durable and lasting. So weak persons who are always

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for the writings and conduct of the grandfather." But M. Sainte Beuve

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Laziness, 367. SEE Idleness.

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