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be as firm and stedfast in a plot which ought to be stifled without fear

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that death is no evil, and the weakest of men, equally with the bravest,

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to be read ourselves. (1665, No. 296.)

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--------, defined, R.I.

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of raillery in which certain prompt and ready-witted persons excel so

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Infidelity, 359, 360, 381, 429.

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by their lights, and they would attract by their reason. There would be

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many matters that are essential to maintain society. We desire to

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374.--If we think we love a woman for love of herself we are greatly

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have yet many points of difference.

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Quoting oneself, R.V.

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most widely known, and the most distinguished. Voltaire, whose opinion

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often happens to vain men, he would rather talk of his own failings than

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many who have betrayed me.'"--Memoires De Madame De Motteville, Tom.

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scaffold, the fate of Chalais and Montmorency, were before his eyes,

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There are some which are lovely, which all the world admire, but without

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brave, and that he will be able to be bold in certain cases. He should

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unlimited; he always acts uniformly and with the same activity; he sees

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XX.--One has never less reason than when one despairs of finding it in

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wit with ill nature.

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Others whose fidelity we know trust nothing to us, but we confide in

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["By nature woman is a flirt, but her flirting changes both in the mode

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between what is good in the abstract and what is good for ourselves, and

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powerlessness of will.

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121.--We frequently do good to enable us with impunity to do evil.

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confidence; this should be equal on both sides. Each should have an

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of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition,

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it becomes a slavery when it is extreme. We should so render a free

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considers the ablest in the world.

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-------- of the World, 212, 455.

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223.--Gratitude is as the good faith of merchants: it holds commerce

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by which he is known to the world.

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injured them. The necessity of revenging an injury or of recompensing a

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183.--For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest

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or pleasant. This habit always places bounds to our knowledge, and no

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["Adulatione servilia fingebant securi de fragilitate credentis." Tacit.

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172.--If we thoroughly consider the varied effects of indifference we

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attempting to destroy them at a blow, and place agreeable objects in

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not always equally masters of their timidity. Others allow themselves

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Gentleness of mind is an easy and accommodating manner which always

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90.--In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by

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------, faults of, 428.

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306.--We find very few ungrateful people when we are able to confer

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same result. For the rest it is a fact that whatever difference there

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centred in his strong box, beyond that he has no want."]

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everything. The retreat he has just made from the world is the most

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Wisdom, 132, 210, 231, 323, 444, LXXXIII.

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by the editor to Rochefoucauld. Most likely they were his writing, as

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Ingratitude, 96, 226, 306, 317.

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238.--It is not so dangerous to do wrong to most men, as to do them too