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plus ferme, Que ces vulgaires humains Qui, pres de leur dernier terme,
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sixteen he was present, and took part in the military operations at the
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[A maxim, adds Aime Martin, "Which may enter into the code of a vulgar
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introduction states that the 1665 edition only had 316 maxims. In fact,
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was Mdlle. Vivonne, and that she was the mother of five sons and three
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small to run after greater interest.
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evils. The wisest and bravest are those who take the best means to avoid
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Rochefoucauld and De Retz will give the details to those who desire to
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its eternal motion. (Edition of 1665, No. 1.)
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above advice, know that I always receive it with all the joy that could
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Rochefoucauld behaved with great bravery. He was wounded in the head, a
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The Maxims were first published in 1665, with a preface by Segrais.
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Confidence, difference from Sincerity
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the blood. (1665, No. 13.)
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left him, and formed an alliance with the Duc de Nemours. Rochefoucauld
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Self-satisfaction, 51.
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bigoted to antiquity as not to prefer the Memoirs of La Rochefoucauld
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406.--Flirts make it a point of honour to be jealous of their lovers, to
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The four first are quoted opposite the title, then follow these lines:--
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Old Age, 109, 210, 418, 423, 430, 461.
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Reflections and Moral Maxims
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Bruyere, Des Judgements.]
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["Thus terminated that famous war of the Fronde. The Duke de la
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disguise them that it is itself deceived, but it even changes the state
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LV.--Of all passions that which is least known to us is idleness; she
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["Grief for the calamity of another is pity, and ariseth from the
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214.--Valour in common soldiers is a perilous method of earning their
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providing that it may be, it will be its own enemy! We must therefore
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her are always false.
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302.--Only in things of small value we usually are bold enough not to
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As to the author, M. Sainte Beuve says:--"C'etait un misanthrope poli,
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Passions, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 122, 188, 266, 276, 404,
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absence of all feeling and reflection could make him."--21st Jan. 1769.]
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83.--What men term friendship is merely a partnership with a collection
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his youth had been spent, and though written in a lively style, and
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disagreeable, refined or vulgar.
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have been loved so much as to show that they are worth being loved. (See
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at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their
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his more pleasant madness.--See Aelian, Var. Hist. iv. 25. So Horace--
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the same self-love that usually blinds them enlightens them, and gives
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they who merely expose themselves to vindicate their honour; it is very
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him to write the maxim: "We promise according to our hopes, we perform
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438.--There is a certain lively gratitude which not only releases
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Jealousy, 28, 32, 324, 336, 359, 361, 446, 503, CII.
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267.--A quickness in believing evil without having sufficiently examined
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my face, it is either square or oval, but which I should find it very
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this which commonly raises us more above them, than birth, rank, or even
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troubles in the State without any design of turning them to account, and
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in France. The Maxims are printed from the edition of 1678, the last
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Penetration, 377, 425, CXVI.