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113.--There may be good but there are no pleasant marriages.

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because we regard it as the result of our worth, without remembering

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484.--When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is

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of the smallest particulars it meets with. This distinction is usually

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actions with all the severity of justice; it exaggerates the faults till

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Archbishopric of Paris against the power of Cardinal Mazarin, but after

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together; and we do not pay because it is just to pay debts, but because

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fear to make ourselves ill. (1665, No. 21.)

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342.--The accent of our native country dwells in the heart and mind as

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Folly, 207, 208, 209, 210, 231, 300, 310, 311, 318,

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a good light on his faults. He is insensible alike to hatred and to

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After having in this way fulfilled the duties of politeness, we can

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reason, have need of passions to stimulate their actions.

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present. In the first he quotes Juvenal, Sat. X., line 315. " Nullum

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222.--Few persons on the first approach of age do not show wherein their

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Faculties of the Mind, 174.

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silence of discretion and of respect. In a word, there is a tone, an

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dissatisfy those who receive them. They shed an uncertain light on what

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(Commerces) which are attributed to it, but with which it has no more

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the body; what we call a cure is often no more than an intermission or

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own by anticipation.

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discernment. All they do is in harmony, all is in the same spirit.

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desire to estimate the effects that they produce.

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during Louis XIV.'s minority, yet, except to the historian, has ceased

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seen it. Yet there are very few in whom we should be surprised to see

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LIV.--Luxury and too refined a policy in states are a sure presage of

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case, that Maxims which had been rejected by Rochefoucauld in his last

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rare to find those who have intrigued but once.

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XXXVIII.--The pomp of funerals concerns rather the vanity of the living,

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finds."--Essays, {(1625), "Of Ceremonies and Respects"}]

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prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through

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called, "vir nobilissimus Fulcaldus." His territorial power enabled him

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plants, are discovered by chance. (Repitition Of Maxim 344.)

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Character, LVI, R.II.

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300.--There are follies as catching as infections.

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the same female becomes favourable to us, or certain of our interests

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their conduct. They would show what they were, they would judge matters

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which is oftener further away from its mark, nor upon which the present

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LXXIII.--I am perfectly aware that good sense and fine wit are tedious

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friends for the interest of the business, because they wish to have the

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38.--We promise according to our hopes; we perform according to our

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Agreeableness, 255, R.V.

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XXII.--It is a proof of little friendship not to perceive the growing

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Some persons have bad taste in everything, others have bad taste only

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47.--Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from

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to purchase their absence.

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from faults, and all fail more or less to convey the author's meaning.

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36.--It would seem that nature, which has so wisely ordered the organs

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188.--The health of the mind is not less uncertain than that of the

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