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avow that I have faults.

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should be left to ordinary persons, who, as they never do anything from

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Artifices, 117, 124, 125, 126, R.II.

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follow from choice and not from habit or chance. If we are false in

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in theories, combined with his gentleness, his winning ways, his

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483.--Usually we are more satirical from vanity than malice.

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than the honour of the dead. (1665, No. 213.)

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pleasing manners, which are perfect, should more than compensate for

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bewept, in fact one weeps to avoid the disgrace of not weeping!

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does it raise their fame and endear them to their subjects, that it

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L.--There is a general revolution which changes the tastes of the mind

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down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is

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Appearances, 64, 166, 199, 256, 302, 431, 457, R.VII.

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time (however foolish and distasteful they may be).

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above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which the sight of great

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this passion (envy) in good earnest, and yet I never met with any who

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Goodness, 237, 275, 284, XLVI.

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We should never say anything with an air of authority, nor show

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431.--Nothing prevents our being unaffected so much as our desire to

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those who commit faults, and we reprove them not so much to correct as

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individual; we always lose it when we abandon it to assume another.

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"Few books," says Mr. Hallam, "have been more highly extolled, or more

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CXX.--Our actions are like rhymed verse-ends (Bouts-Rimes) which

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make us think we could approach death with indifference. The glory of

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appearance of sincerity and of discretion which never causes the fear of

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There are some so refined and delicate that few are capable even of

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not only here, but also in France." Rousseau speaks of it as, "a sad and

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should have the power of separating himself without that separation

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at the present day to be of much interest. It forms, perhaps, the true

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Opinions, 13, 234, CXXIII, R.V.

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argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind."--Swift.

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those who have united themselves to friendship have nought to do with

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their complaints and excuse ourselves with gentleness, but if they are

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believed he had need of it; and this, combined with his 'Maxims,' which

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404.--It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents

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still unreasonable, we should sacrifice their friendship to our duty,

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enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either

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make them after much labour.

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Reflections of the Duke de la Rochefoucauld. Revised and improved.

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sacrifice himself to others. His first duty is to rigidly keep his trust

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to the Commentaries of Caesar," or the statement of Voltaire, "that the

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[The following reflections are extracted from the first two editions

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II. On Difference of Character.

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but lively. I cannot put it down to the barrenness of his judgment, for,

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271.--Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.

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we feel than in that we inspire.

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Few persons have sufficient tact and good sense fairly to appreciate

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indefinitely, nothing remained but to build an immortal reputation, and

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Natural goodness, 275.

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495.--Young men entering life should be either shy or bold; a solemn and

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