Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la RochefoucauldW. Gowans, 1851 - 189 pages |
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... humor than I paint myself , nor more clever and ac- complished than I am . I therefore repeat that I am clever , but my capacities are spoilt by melancholy ; for , although I know my own language passably well , although I have a ...
... humor than I paint myself , nor more clever and ac- complished than I am . I therefore repeat that I am clever , but my capacities are spoilt by melancholy ; for , although I know my own language passably well , although I have a ...
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... humor , docility of character , and weak- ness in submitting to the complaints and reproaches of his friends , a little piety , some appearances of religion . He appears ambitious without being really so ; vanity and those who have ...
... humor , docility of character , and weak- ness in submitting to the complaints and reproaches of his friends , a little piety , some appearances of religion . He appears ambitious without being really so ; vanity and those who have ...
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... humor is often more fantastical than that of fortune . 47 . The attachment or indifference which the philosophers had for life was nothing more than one of the tastes of their self - love , which we ought no more to dispute than the ...
... humor is often more fantastical than that of fortune . 47 . The attachment or indifference which the philosophers had for life was nothing more than one of the tastes of their self - love , which we ought no more to dispute than the ...
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François duc de La Rochefoucauld. 48 . Our humor sets its price on every thing we get from fortune . 49 . Happiness lies in the taste , and not in the things ; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy - not from having what ...
François duc de La Rochefoucauld. 48 . Our humor sets its price on every thing we get from fortune . 49 . Happiness lies in the taste , and not in the things ; and it is from having what we desire that we are happy - not from having what ...
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... humor of women ; but they do not all practise it , because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason . 253 . We often inconvenience others , when we fancy we can never possibly do so . 254 . We are very far from being ...
... humor of women ; but they do not all practise it , because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason . 253 . We often inconvenience others , when we fancy we can never possibly do so . 254 . We are very far from being ...
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Page 83 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, ' I am Sir Oracle, And, when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Page 55 - I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms ; Pray so ; and, for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too. When you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, And own no other function : each your doing, So singular in each particular, Crowns what you are doing in the present deeds, That all your acts are queens.
Page 50 - For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Page 75 - As Rochefoucault his maxims drew From nature, I believe them true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind.
Page 16 - Frivolous curiosity about trifles, and a laborious attention to little objects, which neither require nor deserve a moment's thought, lower a man ; who from thence is thought (and not unjustly) incapable of greater matters. Cardinal de Retz, very sagaciously, marked out Cardinal Chigi* for a little mind, from the moment that he told him he had wrote three years with the same pen, and that it was an excellent good one still.
Page xxii - But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature ; so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth : but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance be further polished and illustrated and accommodated for use and practice ; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.
Page 79 - That thus enchains us to permitted ill. We might be otherwise, we might be all We dream of happy, high, majestical. Where is the love, beauty and truth we seek, But in our mind? and if we were not weak, Should we be less in deed than in desire?' 'Ay, if we were not weak — and we aspire How vainly to be strong!' said Maddalo; 'You talk Utopia.
Page xii - For first, it trieth the writer, whether he be superficial or / solid: for Aphorisms, except they should be ridiculous, cannot be made but of the pith and heart of sciences; for discourse of illustration is cut off; recitals of examples are cut off; discourse of connexion and order is cut off; descriptions of practice are cut off...
Page 33 - cui sic extorta voluptas et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error».
Page 55 - d have you do it ever : when you sing, I 'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : when you do dance, I wish you A wave o' the sea, that you might ever do Nothing but that ; move still, still so, and own No other function.