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?§ois duc de, 1613-1680

"Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims"


460.--It would be well for us if we knew all our
passions make us do.
461.--Age is a tyrant who forbids at the penalty of
life all the pleasures of youth.
462.--The same pride which makes us blame faults
from which we believe ourselves free causes us to
despise the good qualities we have not.
463.--There is often more pride than goodness in
our grief for our enemies' miseries; it is to show how
superior we are to them, that we bestow on them the
sign of our compassion.
464.--There exists an excess of good and evil which
surpasses our comprehension.
465.--Innocence is most fortunate if it finds the
same protection as crime.
466.--Of all the violent passions the one that
becomes a woman best is love.
467.--Vanity makes us sin more against our taste
than reason.
468.--Some bad qualities form great talents.
469.--We never desire earnestly what we desire in
reason.
470.--All our qualities are uncertain and doubtful,
both the good as well as the bad, and nearly all are
creatures of opportunities.


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