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discover virtue."--Lord Bacon, Essays{, (1625), "Of Adversity"}.]

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401, 437, 455, CXVIII.

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the wind will blow out a candle, and blow in a fire.

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mode by which to be engrossed with the passion without being so with the

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55.--The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT

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finds truth in spite of the obscurity that hides her from others.

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taste or mind. These last are very rare, for to speak generally, there

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inspire. Nevertheless as soon as the sight of his beloved has calmed the

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of which even ourselves are ignorant.

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differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as

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better temper than I describe, nor more witty and clever than I am. Once

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adopt, as it would strengthen his influence with Anne of Austria, place

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101.--Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could

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LXXVIII.--True penitential sorrows (mortifications) are those which are

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CXV.--Those faults are always pardonable that we have the courage to

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stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their

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75; 1666, No. 66; 1671-5, No. 65; in the last edition it stands as at

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We should readily excuse our friends when their faults are born with

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127.--The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than

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-------- of afflictions, 233.

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confidence of others.

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Cowardice, 215, 480.

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face upon it, let it suffice, not to say all that we think to ourselves,

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*The reader will recognise in these extracts portions of the

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103.--Those who know their minds do not necessarily know their hearts.

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Of all the French epigrammatic writers La Rochefoucauld is at once the

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others, and we should praise Prince Conde and Marshal Turenne much less

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130.--Weakness is the only fault which cannot be cured.

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meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

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of actions, which instead of wishing to beget her, only look to the

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the meanest slave; Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise, His pride

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370.--There are not many cowards who know the whole of their fear.

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expectations, others mistake great future advantages for small present

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401.--Rank is to merit what dress is to a pretty woman.

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motive. Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies

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504.--Thus having treated of the hollowness of so many apparent virtues,

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"Men who are unequal to the labour of discussing an argument or wish

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nothing is more tiresome than a man who quotes himself for everything.

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against the ills of life.

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to count as naught what will of necessity destroy it. And the mind in

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author in the later; the second, the unpublished Maxims taken from the

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entertained Charles V. at the family chateau at Verteuil, in so princely

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the age in which the author lived.]

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through the book--that 'self-love is the motive of everything'--yet

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Avarice, 167, 491, 492.

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thing that might be censured.

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Government of others, 151.

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aspire to the glory of a noble and immortal sorrow. After Time,

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106.--To understand matters rightly we should understand their details,

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442.--We try to make a virtue of vices we are loth to correct.

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