Maxims

La Rochefoucauld

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["Singuli decipere ac decipi possunt, nemo omnes, omnes neminem
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discernment of good qualities which goes to form a correct judgment
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walk, but always naturally, and as is suitable, either at the head of
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Society, 87, 201, R.IV.
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229.--The good we have received from a man should make us excuse the
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What makes this falseness so universal, is that as our qualities are
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broken on the wheel. So however diverse the motives they but realize the
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195.--The reason which often prevents us abandoning a single vice is
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and suitable to their condition, their sex, their talents, and also
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thing our imagination presents, and hinders us from at first discerning
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the doctrines of certain sciences never become her, and when applied by
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108.--The head cannot long play the part of the heart.
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objects appear to us in such divers aspects that ultimately we fail to
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it. (See Maxim 361.)
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to persuade them that we ourselves are free from faults.
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and his immortal "Maxims."
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number of changes and uncertainties. Our taste is no longer our own,
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THE LETTER R PRECEDING A REFERENCE REFERS TO THE REFLECTIONS, THE ROMAN
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Humility, 254, 358, LXXVI, LXXIX
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good fortune bestows upon their temper.
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Sainte Beuve says that the cynical book and that young life were the
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Disguise, 119, 246, 282.
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["To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship which
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202.--Falsely honest men are those who disguise their faults both
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["And understood not that a grateful mind, By owing owes not, but is at
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72.--If we judge of love by the majority of its results it rather
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faults in the light we wish them to be seen, forms a great part of our
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intimately, and those who have the goodness sometimes to give me the
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to which he cannot attach himself, and retires from a world which is
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few adopt the method of making it pleasant and lasting.
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Queen (Anne of Austria), but in reality to prevent the Duke learning
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471.--In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others
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wish to win the confidence of others, and make an exchange of secrets.
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Thousands of people with good qualities are displeasing; thousands
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"He passed a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility,
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LXXXVIII.--Prudence and love are not made for each other; in the ratio
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because the others follow, without considering that the same feeling
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modern times which record the conclusions of observing men on the moral
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372.--Most young people think they are natural when they are only
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XVII.--As if it was not sufficient that self-love should have the power
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some, both will seem deserving of the highest praise; to others both
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It sometimes happens that persons opposite in temper and mind become
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and increase. We are elevated to a rank and dignity above ourselves. We
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courtier, the most agreeable man in private life that had appeared in
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there remain many unexplored territories there.
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422.--All passions make us commit some faults, love alone makes us
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112.--The blemishes of the mind, like those of the face, increase by
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291.--Man's merit, like the crops, has its season.
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Affectation, 134, 493.