Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la RochefoucauldW. Gowans, 1851 - 189 oldal |
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viii. oldal
... object that the contending parties had in view ; and the motives of individuals are still more difficult to penetrate , from the conflicting accounts given by the various actors themselves , of the transactions in which they were ...
... object that the contending parties had in view ; and the motives of individuals are still more difficult to penetrate , from the conflicting accounts given by the various actors themselves , of the transactions in which they were ...
xiv. oldal
... objects , the appetites of sense , resentment , compassion , curiosity , ambition , and the rest . When this is done , if the words ' selfish ' and ' interested ' cannot be parted with , but must be applied to every thing , yet to avoid ...
... objects , the appetites of sense , resentment , compassion , curiosity , ambition , and the rest . When this is done , if the words ' selfish ' and ' interested ' cannot be parted with , but must be applied to every thing , yet to avoid ...
xv. oldal
... objects , so far as it proceeds from these movements , ( for it may pro- ceed from self - love , ) is no otherwise interested than as every action of every creature must from the nature of the thing be ; for no one can act but from a ...
... objects , so far as it proceeds from these movements , ( for it may pro- ceed from self - love , ) is no otherwise interested than as every action of every creature must from the nature of the thing be ; for no one can act but from a ...
xx. oldal
... object of making uncharitable remarks on the conduct of others , has studied them to little purpose . It is his own heart that they should teach him most to reflect upon . In his preface to the edition of 1665 , Segrais says , " The ...
... object of making uncharitable remarks on the conduct of others , has studied them to little purpose . It is his own heart that they should teach him most to reflect upon . In his preface to the edition of 1665 , Segrais says , " The ...
1. oldal
... objects , as bees do on flowers , to extract what is useful to it . There is nothing so impetuous as its desires , nothing so secret as its plans , nothing so clever as its conduct . Its pliancy cannot be depicted , its transformations ...
... objects , as bees do on flowers , to extract what is useful to it . There is nothing so impetuous as its desires , nothing so secret as its plans , nothing so clever as its conduct . Its pliancy cannot be depicted , its transformations ...
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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.