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against the government. The plot was, of course, discovered and crushed.

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350.--Why we hate with so much bitterness those who deceive us is

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observes as to this, he can see nothing admirable in the death of the

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gives them a claim upon us, a kind of dependence to which we voluntarily

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343.--To be a great man one should know how to profit by every phase of

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Clarendon, we should have expected the malignity of the priest would

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Weariness. SEE Ennui.

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others. We prefer ourselves always to those with whom we intend to

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296.--It is difficult to love those we do not esteem, but it is no less

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second period, during the progress of that war; the third, the twelve

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"Les Maximes de la Rochefoucauld sont des proverbs des gens

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As for flirtation, I formerly indulged in a little, now I shall do so no

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NUMERALS REFER TO THE SUPPLEMENTS.

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I also hold that we should be content with expressing sympathy, and

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XXXVI.--One never finds in man good or evil in excess. (1665, No. 201.)

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silent when we have begun to tell. There are other rules to be observed

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79.--Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts himself.

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so. He was never a good partizan, although all his life engaged in

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277.--Women often think they love when they do not love. The business of

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In this imitation there is always something of falsity and uncertainty.

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praise them we wish to attract their praise.

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what deserves to be followed, and take offence at nothing. But there

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XLII.--That man who has never been in danger cannot answer for his

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key to understand the special as opposed to general application of the

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wrote, "Jealousy is born with love, but does not die with it." He

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that we affect to have.

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432.--To praise good actions heartily is in some measure to take part in

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CXIV.--It is never more difficult to speak well than when we are ashamed

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Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does

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enjoyment. When even it is conquered in its full flight, we find that

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------, adversity of, XV.

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sketches in which his great enemy, Cardinal De Retz, makes all the chief

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present evils triumph over it.

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twice over I doubt if our experience would make us avoid them.

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XVI.--How shall we hope that another person will keep our secret if we

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not seem to us so foolish as we seem to ourselves when trapped by the

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414.--Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

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"Can age itself forget that you are now in the last act of life? Can

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folds. There it is often to itself invisible; it there conceives, there

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with spite, and when the person satirised can join in the satire.

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remedies which can solace our miseries and can cure our faults. (1665,

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407.--It may well be that those who have trapped us by their tricks do

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passages, and similar ideas. Of ancient writers Rochefoucauld most

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from his writings, distinguished from the part he had taken in public

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number of persons who sacrifice their property to doubtful and distant

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CXII.--We are always bored by those whom we bore. (See Maxim 352.)

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thoughts to them, and make them, if possible, believe that we take our

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the importance it is fitting we should give them. But nearly all men are

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always found all mirrors untrustworthy, at last discovered his real

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An acute mind and a cunning mind are very dissimilar. The first always

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