Reflections; Or, Sentences and Moral MaximsS. Low, Son, and Marston, 1871 - 110 páginas |
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... thoughts in the Maxims are extended and elaborated , now appear in English for the first time . And secondly , that it is an attempt ( to quote the preface of the edition of 1749 ) " to do the Duc de la Rochefoucauld the justice to make ...
... thoughts in the Maxims are extended and elaborated , now appear in English for the first time . And secondly , that it is an attempt ( to quote the preface of the edition of 1749 ) " to do the Duc de la Rochefoucauld the justice to make ...
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... thoughts . To a people naturally inclined to think that every possible view , every conceivable argument , upon a question is included in a short aphorism , a shrug , and the word " voilà , " truths expressed in condensed sentences must ...
... thoughts . To a people naturally inclined to think that every possible view , every conceivable argument , upon a question is included in a short aphorism , a shrug , and the word " voilà , " truths expressed in condensed sentences must ...
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... to be admired . Writing to her daughter , she says , " Believe me , it is not for nothing he has moralised all his life ; he has thought so often on his last moments that they are nothing new or unfamiliar to XX INTRODUCTION .
... to be admired . Writing to her daughter , she says , " Believe me , it is not for nothing he has moralised all his life ; he has thought so often on his last moments that they are nothing new or unfamiliar to XX INTRODUCTION .
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... truth running through the book - that ' self - love is the motive of everything ' - yet this thought is presented under so many varied aspects that it is nearly always striking . It is not so much a book as xxii INTRODUCTION .
... truth running through the book - that ' self - love is the motive of everything ' - yet this thought is presented under so many varied aspects that it is nearly always striking . It is not so much a book as xxii INTRODUCTION .
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... thoughts in a lively , precise , and delicate turn of expression . This was a merit which , before him , no one in Europe had attained since the revival of letters . " Dr. Johnson speaks of it as " the only book written by a man of ...
... thoughts in a lively , precise , and delicate turn of expression . This was a merit which , before him , no one in Europe had attained since the revival of letters . " Dr. Johnson speaks of it as " the only book written by a man of ...
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actions agreeable ambition Anne of Austria appear beauty believe better bore bouts-rimés BRUYERE Cardinal De Retz Cardinal Mazarin cauld Cinq Mars clever Cœur Condé confidence contempt cured death deceived desire despise disguise Duc de Longueville Duchesse de Chevreuse Duke Edition of 1665 envy evil false faults favour fear flatter flirtation folly fool fortune French French nobility friends friendship Fronde give greater greatest happy hate heart hide honour idleness inconstancy infinite number interest kind la Rochefoucauld less lives Madame de Sablé Madame de Sévigné manner matters Maxims merit mind mistress Moral nature ness never opinion ourselves Paris passions persons persuade pleases pleasure possess praise pride qualities reason Reflections Richelieu Rochefou Rochefoucauld satire self-love society sometimes speak TACITUS talk taste temper things thought tion true truth Turenne valour vanity vices virtues Voltaire wise wish woman women wounded
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Página 11 - Love ! no habitant of earth thou art — An unseen seraph, we believe in thee, A faith whose martyrs are the broken heart, But never yet hath seen, nor e'er shall see The naked eye, thy form, as it should be ; The mind hath made thee, as it peopled heaven, Even with its own desiring phantasy, And to a thought such shape and image given, As haunts the unquench'd soul — parch'd — wearied — wrung — and riven.
Página 64 - I believe them true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind. This maxim more than all the rest Is thought too base for human breast: ' In all distresses of our friends, We first consult our private ends; While nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.
Página 1 - Perhaps prosperity becalm'd his breast ; Perhaps the wind just shifted from the east : Not therefore humble he who seeks retreat ; Pride guides his steps, and bids him shun the great : Who combats bravely is not therefore brave ; He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave . Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise ; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies.
Página 16 - Wholly unacquainted with the world in which they are so fond of meddling and inexperienced in all its affairs, on which they pronounce with so much confidence, they have nothing of politics but the passions they excite.
Página 10 - Sardanapalli. monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare; semita certe tranquillae per virtutem patet unica vitae. nullum numen habes, si sit prudentia: nos te, nos facimus, Fortuna, deam caeloque locamus.
Página 33 - ... twas a taught trick, to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth...
Página 48 - Let us consider you, then, as arrived at the summit of worldly greatness ; let us suppose that all your plans of avarice and ambition are accomplished, and your most sanguine wishes gratified in the fear as well as the hatred of the people. Can age itself forget that you are now in the last act of life ? Can grey hairs make folly venerable ? and is there no period to be reserved for meditation and retirement...
Página 19 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer, Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike...
Página 32 - He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility; And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.
Página 66 - American idea; he is taught that "rank is but the guinea's stamp, a man's a man for a