Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la RochefoucauldW. Gowans, 1851 - 189 oldal |
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iv. oldal
... fear of 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 ...
... fear of 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 ...
xxvi. oldal
... fear but few things , and death not at all . I am not very sensible of pity ; and I should wish not to be so at all . Notwithstanding , I would do every thing in my power to comfort a person in dis- tress : and I think , in fact , that ...
... fear but few things , and death not at all . I am not very sensible of pity ; and I should wish not to be so at all . Notwithstanding , I would do every thing in my power to comfort a person in dis- tress : and I think , in fact , that ...
9. oldal
... fear , and almost always from all three together . 18 . The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers . 19 . Moderation is a fear of falling into envy , and into the contempt which ...
... fear , and almost always from all three together . 18 . The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers . 19 . Moderation is a fear of falling into envy , and into the contempt which ...
11. oldal
... fear of look- ing it in the face ; so that it may be said that this firmness , and this contempt , are to their minds what the bandage is to their eyes . 23 . Philosophy triumphs easily over past , and over future evils , but present ...
... fear of look- ing it in the face ; so that it may be said that this firmness , and this contempt , are to their minds what the bandage is to their eyes . 23 . Philosophy triumphs easily over past , and over future evils , but present ...
16. oldal
... fears . 40 . Interest speaks all sorts of languages , and plays all sorts of parts , even that of disinter- estedness . 41 . Interest , which blinds some , opens the eyes of others . 42 . Those who bestow too much application on 42 ...
... fears . 40 . Interest speaks all sorts of languages , and plays all sorts of parts , even that of disinter- estedness . 41 . Interest , which blinds some , opens the eyes of others . 42 . Those who bestow too much application on 42 ...
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Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld François La Rochefoucauld Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2013 |
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83. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - As Rochefoucault his maxims drew From nature, I believe them true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind.
16. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - cui sic extorta voluptas et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error».
55. oldal - 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.