Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la RochefoucauldW. Gowans, 1851 - 189 ページ |
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... suffering from the oppression of others . This may be all true , but still , there are actions in which men can have no self - interest in view ; in which they act from enthusiasm , or a strong sense of duty , or from benevolence , or ...
... suffering from the oppression of others . This may be all true , but still , there are actions in which men can have no self - interest in view ; in which they act from enthusiasm , or a strong sense of duty , or from benevolence , or ...
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... suffer in theory from a low idea being entertained of human nature , it gains in- finitely in practice from the avoidance of that soured and despairing temper which is caused by the reaction from overstrained hopes and enthusiastic ...
... suffer in theory from a low idea being entertained of human nature , it gains in- finitely in practice from the avoidance of that soured and despairing temper which is caused by the reaction from overstrained hopes and enthusiastic ...
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... suffer it from resolution , but from stupidity as in them lies , employing all their senses , their ears in hearing the instructions that are given them , their eyes and hands lifted up towards heaven , —their voices in loud prayers ...
... suffer it from resolution , but from stupidity as in them lies , employing all their senses , their ears in hearing the instructions that are given them , their eyes and hands lifted up towards heaven , —their voices in loud prayers ...
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... suffer themselves to be overcome by the length of their misfortunes , they let us see that they only supported them through the strength of their ambition , not through that of their minds ; and that , with the exception of a good deal ...
... suffer themselves to be overcome by the length of their misfortunes , they let us see that they only supported them through the strength of their ambition , not through that of their minds ; and that , with the exception of a good deal ...
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... suffering from injustice . 85 . Reconciliation with our enemies is only a desire of bettering our condition , a weariness of contest , and the fear of some disaster . 84. “ An injury done to one is a threat held out to a hundred ...
... suffering from injustice . 85 . Reconciliation with our enemies is only a desire of bettering our condition , a weariness of contest , and the fear of some disaster . 84. “ An injury done to one is a threat held out to a hundred ...
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83 ページ - 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!
55 ページ - 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.
50 ページ - 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
75 ページ - As Rochefoucault his maxims drew From nature, I believe them true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind.
16 ページ - 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.
xxii ページ - 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.
79 ページ - 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.
xii ページ - 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...
33 ページ - cui sic extorta voluptas et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error».
55 ページ - 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.