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501.--Love, though so very agreeable, pleases more by its ways than by

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army, in aiming at their own rise and glory, produce a good so great and

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still loved her. It was, probably, thinking of this that he afterwards

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In all the diversities of taste that we discern, it is very rare and

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is generally happy for them to have an opportunity of displaying

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cannot distinguish ourselves by something excellent, we begin to take

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heading "The passion of Love."}

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Some know what is good, and are horrified at what is not; their opinions

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in succession, sometimes giving the preference to one, sometimes to

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Raillery, R.II, R.IV.

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356.--Usually we only praise heartily those who admire us.

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that it would seem as if he had foreseen and desired them. He loves

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this unexceptionable right. There are accidents and circumstances which

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458.--Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us

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humanity, the duke was seized as an aristocrat by the mob at Gisors and

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298.--The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving

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are often engaged in a new profession for which nature has not adapted

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[The strongest example of this is the passage in Lucretius, lib. ii.,

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excited by passions are seldom really possessed of any.

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231.--It is great folly to wish only to be wise.

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[See also "Table Talk of Napoleon," who agrees with this, so far as to

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We will first look on the portrait Rochefoucauld has left us of himself:

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intrigues. That air of pride and timidity which your see in his private

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they are seldom so in their most serious affairs. (1665, No. 132.)

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pleases; it is unfettered, it perceives the most delicate and sees the

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displeases by the very things which charm us when they are original

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251.--There are people whose faults become them, others whose very

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solemn face, and try to persuade others by all their acts, that their

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is called a conquest. (1665, No. 192.)

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One of his friends, Madame Deshoulieres, shortly before he died sent

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255.--All feelings have their peculiar tone of voice, gestures and

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miserable in being cured of them.

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made this an inflexible law during the whole of my life.

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avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the

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Contradictions, 478.

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No part is easier to play than that of being always pleasant; and the

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may have a large measure of mind fitted for nothing, and one is often

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displease in the proportion they are removed from that point.

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of them that look on."--Bacon, Advancement Of Learning{, (1605), Book I,

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and we do not want to be the last.

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But as there are many kinds of good which affect our vanity and our

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Silliness. SEE Folly.

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we think least of acquiring.

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of those with whom we talk, so as to join in the conversation of those

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the practice of virtue. (1665, No. 155.)

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in thee-- A faith whose martyrs are the broken heart,-- But never yet

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sometimes on pleasures. It changes according to our age, our fortunes,

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114.--We are inconsolable at being deceived by our enemies and betrayed

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valour which alone furnishes all the firmness which is necessary for the

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edition of 1678, the fifth, increased the number to 504. This was the