_Second Week, Second Day, Part ii._
Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought
To orient pearls.[783-7]
_Second Week, Third Day, Part i._
Soft carpet-knights, all scenting musk and amber.[783-8]
_Second Week, Third Day, Part i._
The will for deed I doe accept.[783-9]
_Second Week, Third Day, Part ii._
Only that he may conform
To tyrant custom.[784-1]
_Second Week, Third Day, Part ii._
Sweet grave aspect.[784-2]
_Second Week, Fourth Day, Book i._
Who breaks his faith, no faith is held with him.
_Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii._
Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours
Should not be numbered by years, daies, and hours.[784-3]
_Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii._
My lovely living boy,
My hope, my hap, my love, my life, my joy.[784-4]
_Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii._
Out of the book of Natur's learned brest.[784-5]
_Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii._
Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.
_Second Week, Fourth Day, Book ii._
Through thick and thin, both over hill and plain.[784-6]
_Second Week, Fourth Day, Book iv._
Weakened and wasted to skin and bone.[784-7]
_Second Week, Fourth Day, Book iv._
I take the world to be but as a stage,
Where net-maskt men do play their personage.[784-8]
_Dialogue, between Heraclitus and Democritus._
Made no more bones.
_The Maiden Blush._
FOOTNOTES:
[780-2] See Shakespeare, page 69.
[780-3] See Cowper, page 422.
[780-4] See Burton, page 186.
[781-1] Come, civil night, . . . with thy black
mantle.--SHAKESPEARE: _Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 2._
[781-2] See Milton, page 229.
[781-3]
Report of fashions in proud Italy,
Whose manners still our apish nation
Limps after in base imitation.
SHAKESPEARE: _Richard II. act ii. sc. 1._
[781-4] See Shakespeare, page 80.
[781-5] See Milton, page 248.
[781-6] From north to south, from east to west.--SHAKESPEARE:
_Winter's Tale, act i. sc. 2._
[781-7] Heat considered as a Mode of Motion (title of a treatise,
1863).--JOHN TYNDALL.
[781-8] See Marlowe, page 40.
[781-9] The cattle upon a thousand hills.--_Psalm i. 10._
[782-1] See Pliny, page 717.
[782-2]
So work the honey-bees,
Creatures that by a rule in Nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
SHAKESPEARE: _Henry V. act i. sc. 3._
[782-3] See Pope, page 314.
[782-4] Ere I let fall the windows of mine eyes.--SHAKESPEARE:
_Richard III. act v. sc. 3._
[782-5] See Davies, page 176.
[782-6] See Pope, page 340.
[782-7] See Milton, page 248.
[783-1] See Milton, page 248.
[783-2]
Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds,
With burdocks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers,
Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow
In our sustaining corn.
SHAKESPEARE: _Lear, act iv. sc. 4._
[783-3] See Shakespeare, page 48.
[783-4] Lion, bear, or wolf, or bull.--SHAKESPEARE: _A Midsummer
Night's Dream, act ii. sc. 1._
[783-5] See Shakespeare, page 77.
[783-6] See Publius Syrus, page 711.
[783-7] See Milton, page 234.
Orient pearls.--SHAKESPEARE: _A Midsummer Night's Dream, act iv.
sc. 1._
[783-8] See Burton, page 187.
[783-9] See Swift, page 292.
[784-1] See Shakespeare, page 151.
[784-2] See Shakespeare, page 99. Also Milton, page 227.
[784-3] See Sheridan, page 443.
[784-4]
My fair son!
My life, my joy, my food, my all the world.
SHAKESPEARE: _King John, act iii. sc. 4._
[784-5] The book of Nature is that which the physician must read;
and to do so he must walk over the leaves.--PARACELSUS, 1490-1541.
(From the Encyclopædia Britannica, ninth edition, vol. xviii. p.
234.)
[784-6] See Spenser, page 28.
[784-7] See Byrom, page 351.
[784-8] See Shakespeare, page 69.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES. 1547-1616.
Don Quixote. (_Lockhart's Translation._)
I was so free with him as not to mince the matter.
_Don Quixote. The Author's Preface._
They can expect nothing but their labour for their pains.[784-9]
_Don Quixote. The Author's Preface._
As ill-luck would have it.[785-1]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. ii._
The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of
his own works.[785-2]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. iv._
Which I have earned with the sweat of my brows.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. iv._
Can we ever have too much of a good thing?[785-3]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. vi._
The charging of his enemy was but the work of a moment.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book i. Chap. viii._
And had a face like a blessing.[785-4]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book ii. Chap. iv._
It is a true saying that a man must eat a peck of salt with his
friend before he knows him.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. i._
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. i._
Fair and softly goes far.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ii._
Plain as the nose on a man's face.[785-5]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv._
Let me leap out of the frying-pan into the fire;[785-6] or, out
of God's blessing into the warm sun.[785-7]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv._
You are taking the wrong sow by the ear.[785-8]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv._
Bell, book, and candle.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. iv._
Let the worst come to the worst.[785-9]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. v._
You are come off now with a whole skin.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. v._
Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much
more in the skies.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi._
Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.[785-10]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi._
Why do you lead me a wild-goose chase?
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi._
I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt.[786-1]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi._
The more thou stir it, the worse it will be.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi._
Now had Aurora displayed her mantle over the blushing skies, and
dark night withdrawn her sable veil.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vi._
I tell thee, that is Mambrino's helmet.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vii._
Give me but that, and let the world rub; there I 'll stick.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vii._
Sure as a gun.[786-2]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. vii._
Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii._
Thank you for nothing.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii._
After meat comes mustard; or, like money to a starving man at
sea, when there are no victuals to be bought with it.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii._
Of good natural parts and of a liberal education.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii._
Would puzzle a convocation of casuists to resolve their degrees
of consanguinity.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii._
Let every man mind his own business.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii._
Murder will out.[786-3]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii._
Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. viii._
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for
to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix._
I know what 's what, and have always taken care of the main
chance.[786-4]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix._
The ease of my burdens, the staff of my life.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix._
I am almost frighted out of my seven senses.[787-1]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix._
Within a stone's throw of it.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. ix._
Let us make hay while the sun shines.[787-2]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi._
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread
and butter of mine; every man for himself, and God for us
all.[787-3]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi._
Little said is soonest mended.[787-4]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi._
A close mouth catches no flies.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi._
She may guess what I should perform in the wet, if I do so much
in the dry.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi._
You are a devil at everything, and there is no kind of thing in
the 'versal world but what you can turn your hand to.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi._
It will grieve me so to the heart, that I shall cry my eyes out.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iii. Chap. xi._
Delay always breeds danger.[787-5]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. ii._
They must needs go whom the Devil drives.[787-6]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv._
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.[787-7]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv._
More knave than fool.[787-8]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. iv._
I can tell where my own shoe pinches me; and you must not think,
sir, to catch old birds with chaff.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. v._
I never saw a more dreadful battle in my born days.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. viii._
Here is the devil-and-all to pay.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x._
I begin to smell a rat.[787-9]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x._
I will take my corporal oath on it.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x._
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought
to be, most valued.
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. xi._
I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who
but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can
do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his
pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more
to desire. So the matter's over; and come what will come, I am
satisfied.[788-1]
_Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. xxiii._
When the head aches, all the members partake of the pain.[788-2]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. ii._
He has done like Orbaneja, the painter of Ubeda, who, being asked
what he painted, answered, "As it may hit;" and when he had
scrawled out a misshapen cock, was forced to write underneath, in
Gothic letters, "This is a cock."[788-3]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iii._
There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into
the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of
fritters.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iii._
"There is no book so bad," said the bachelor, "but something good
may be found in it."[788-4]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iii._
Every man is as Heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal
worse.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. iv._
Spare your breath to cool your porridge.[789-1]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. v._
A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's
purse.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. vii._
Remember the old saying, "Faint heart never won fair
lady."[789-2]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. x._
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to
lay us out flat some time or other.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. x._
Are we to mark this day with a white or a black stone?
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. x._
Let every man look before he leaps.[789-3]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xiv._
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xvi._
There were but two families in the world, Have-much and
Have-little.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xx._
He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxii._
Patience, and shuffle the cards.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiii._
Comparisons are odious.[789-4]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiii._
Tell me thy company, and I will tell thee what thou art.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiii._
The proof of the pudding is the eating.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxiv._
He is as like one, as one egg is like another.[789-5]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxvii._
You can see farther into a millstone than he.[789-6]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxviii._
Sancho Panza by name, is my own self, if I was not changed in my
cradle.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxx._
"Sit there, clod-pate!" cried he; "for let me sit wherever I
will, that will still be the upper end, and the place of worship
to thee."[790-1]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxi._
Building castles in the air,[790-2] and making yourself a
laughing-stock.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxi._
It is good to live and learn.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxii._
He is as mad as a March hare.[790-3]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii._
I must follow him through thick and thin.[790-4]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii._
There is no love lost between us.[790-5]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii._
In the night all cats are gray.[790-6]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii._
All is not gold that glisters.[790-7]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii._
I can look sharp as well as another, and let me alone to keep the
cobwebs out of my eyes.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii._
Honesty is the best policy.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii._
Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii._
A good name is better than riches.[790-8]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii._
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no
occasion.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii._
An honest man's word is as good as his bond.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiii._
Heaven's help is better than early rising.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxiv._
I have other fish to fry.[790-9]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxv._
There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a
time for great things, and a time for small things.[791-1]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxv._
But all in good time.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvi._
Matters will go swimmingly.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvi._
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvii._
They had best not stir the rice, though it sticks to the pot.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvii._
Good wits jump;[791-2] a word to the wise is enough.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxxvii._
You may as well expect pears from an elm.[791-3]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xl._
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult
lesson in the world.[791-4]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xlii._
You cannot eat your cake and have your cake;[791-5] and store 's
no sore.[791-6]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii._
Diligence is the mother of good fortune.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii._
What a man has, so much he is sure of.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii._
When a man says, "Get out of my house! what would you have with
my wife?" there is no answer to be made.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii._
The pot calls the kettle black.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xliii._
This peck of troubles.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. liii._
When thou art at Rome, do as they do at Rome.[791-7]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. liv._
Many count their chickens before they are hatched; and where they
expect bacon, meet with broken bones.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lv._
My thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman
who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lvii._
Liberty . . . is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven
has bestowed upon mankind.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lviii._
As they use to say, spick and span new.[792-1]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lviii._
I think it a very happy accident.[792-2]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lviii._
I shall be as secret as the grave.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxii._
Now, blessings light on him that first invented this same sleep!
It covers a man all over, thoughts and all, like a cloak; it is
meat for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, heat for the cold,
and cold for the hot. It is the current coin that purchases all
the pleasures of the world cheap, and the balance that sets the
king and the shepherd, the fool and the wise man, even.[792-3]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxviii._
Rome was not built in a day.[792-4]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxxi._
The ass will carry his load, but not a double load; ride not a
free horse to death.
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxxi._
Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the
last.[792-5]
_Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. lxxiv._
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get
blunted.
_The Little Gypsy_ (_La Gitanilla_).
My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to
retain.[792-6]
_The Little Gypsy_ (_La Gitanilla_).
FOOTNOTES:
[784-9] See Shakespeare, page 101.
[785-1] See Shakespeare, page 46.
[785-2] See Bacon, page 167.
[785-3] See Shakespeare, page 71.
[785-4] He had a face like a benediction.--_Jarvis's translation._
[785-5] See Shakespeare, page 44.
[785-6] See Heywood, page 18.
[785-7] See Heywood, page 17.
[785-8] See Heywood, page 19.
[785-9] See Middleton, page 172.
[785-10] See Shakespeare, page 143.
[786-1] See Shakespeare, page 45.
[786-2] See Butler, page 211.
[786-3] See Chaucer, page 5.
[786-4] See Lyly, page 33.
[787-1] See Scott, page 493.
[787-2] See Heywood, page 10.
[787-3] See Heywood, page 20.
[787-4] See Wither, page 200.
[787-5] See Shakespeare, page 93.
[787-6] See Heywood, page 18.
[787-7] See Heywood, page 15. Also Plutarch, page 740.
[787-8] See Marlowe, page 41.
[787-9] See Middleton, page 172.
[788-1] I would do what I pleased; and doing what I pleased, I
should have my will; and having my will, I should be contented;
and when one is contented, there is no more to be desired; and
when there is no more to be desired, there is an end of
it.--_Jarvis's translation._
[788-2]
For let our finger ache, and it endues
Our other healthful members even to that sense
Of pain.--_Othello, act iii. sc. 4._
[788-3] The painter Orbaneja of Ubeda, if he chanced to draw a
cock, he wrote under it, "This is a cock," lest the people should
take it for a fox.--_Jarvis's translation._
[788-4] See Pliny the Younger, page 748.
[789-1] See Rabelais, page 773.
[789-2] SPENSER: _Britain's Ida, canto v. stanza 1._ ELLERTON:
_George a-Greene_ (a Ballad). WHETSTONE: _Rocke of Regard._ BURNS:
_To Dr. Blacklock._ COLMAN: _Love Laughs at Locksmiths, act i._
[789-3] See Heywood, page 9.
[789-4] See Fortescue, page 7.
[789-5] See Rabelais, page 773. Also Shakespeare, page 77.
[789-6] See Heywood, page 13.
[790-1] Sit thee down, chaff-threshing churl! for let me sit where
I will, that is the upper end to thee.--_Jarvis's translation._
This is generally placed in the mouth of Macgregor: "Where
Macgregor sits, there is the head of the table." Emerson quotes
it, in his "American Scholar," as the saying of Macdonald, and
Theodore Parker as the saying of the Highlander.
[790-2] See Burton, page 187.
[790-3] See Heywood, page 18.
[790-4] See Spenser, page 28.
[790-5] See Middleton, page 173.
[790-6] See Heywood, page 11.
[790-7] See Chaucer, page 5.
[790-8] See Publius Syrus, page 708.
[790-9] See Rabelais, page 773.
[791-1] To everything there is a season, and a time to every
purpose.--_Ecclesiastes iii. 1._
[791-2] See Sterne, page 378.
[791-3] See Publius Syrus, page 712.
[791-4] See Chaucer, page 4.
[791-5] See Heywood, page 20.
[791-6] See Heywood, page 11.
[791-7] See Burton, page 193.
[792-1] See Middleton, page 172.
[792-2] See Middleton, page 174.
[792-3] Blessing on him who invented sleep,--the mantle that
covers all human thoughts, the food that appeases hunger, the
drink that quenches thirst, the fire that warms cold, the cold
that moderates heat, and, lastly, the general coin that purchases
all things, the balance and weight that equals the shepherd with
the king, and the simple with the wise.--_Jarvis's translation._
[792-4] See Heywood, page 15.
[792-5] See Longfellow, page 613.
[792-6] See Byron, page 554.
BARTHOLOMEW SCHIDONI. 1560-1616.
I, too, was born in Arcadia.[793-1]
FOOTNOTES:
[793-1] Goethe adopted this motto for his "Travels in Italy."
JOHN SIRMOND. 1589(?)-1649.
If on my theme I rightly think,
There are five reasons why men drink,--
Good wine, a friend, because I 'm dry,
Or lest I should be by and by,
Or any other reason why.[793-2]
_Causæ Bibendi._
FOOTNOTES:
[793-2] These lines are a translation of a Latin epigram
(erroneously ascribed to Henry Aldrich in the "Biographia
Britannica," second edition, vol. i. p. 131), which Menage and De
la Monnoye attribute to Père Sirmond:
Si bene commemini, causæ sunt quinque bibendi:
Hospitis adventus; præsens sitis atque futura;
Et vini bonitas, et quælibet altera causa.
_Menagiana, vol. i. p. 172._
FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU. 1604-1655.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;[793-3]
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
_Retribution._ (_Sinngedichte._)
Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein;
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave.
_Sin._ (_Sinngedichte._)
FOOTNOTES:
[793-3] See Herbert, page 206.
Opse theou myloi aleousi to lepton aleuron.--_Oracula Sibylliana,
liber viii. line 14._
Opse theôn aleousi myloi, aleousi de lepta.--LEUTSCH AND
SCHNEIDEWIN: _Corpus Paroemiographorum Græcorum, vol. i. p. 444._
Sextus Empiricus is the first writer who has presented the whole
of the adage cited by Plutarch in his treatise "Concerning such
whom God is slow to punish."
ISAAC DE BENSERADE. 1612-1691.
In bed we laugh, in bed we cry;
And, born in bed, in bed we die.
The near approach a bed may show
Of human bliss to human woe.[794-1]
FOOTNOTES:
[794-1] Translated by Samuel Johnson.
FRANCIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD. 1613-1680.
(_Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims._)
Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.[794-2]
We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of
others.
_Maxim 19._
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but
present evils triumph over it.[794-3]
_Maxim 22._
We need greater virtues to sustain good than evil fortune.
_Maxim 25._
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
_Maxim 26._
Interest speaks all sorts of tongues, and plays all sorts of
parts, even that of disinterestedness.
_Maxim 39._
We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
_Maxim 49._
There are few people who would not be ashamed of being loved when
they love no longer.
_Maxim 71._
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few
have seen.
_Maxim 76._
The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear
of suffering injustice.
_Maxim 78._
Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts himself.
_Maxim 79._
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an
exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of
which self-love always expects to gain something.
_Maxim 83._
A man who is ungrateful is often less to blame than his
benefactor.
_Maxim 96._
The understanding is always the dupe of the heart.
_Maxim 102._
Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
_Maxim 110._
The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than
others.
_Maxim 127._
Usually we praise only to be praised.
_Maxim 146._
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as
fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
_Maxim 180._
Most people judge men only by success or by fortune.
_Maxim 212._
Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
_Maxim 218._
Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
_Maxim 226._
There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.
_Maxim 245._
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are happier in the passion
we feel than in that we inspire.[795-1]
_Maxim 259._
We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those
whom we admire.
_Maxim 294._
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving
greater benefits.[796-1]
_Maxim 298._
Lovers are never tired of each other, though they always speak of
themselves.
_Maxim 312._
We pardon in the degree that we love.
_Maxim 330._
We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree
with us.[796-2]
_Maxim 347._
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.
_Maxim 377._
We may give advice, but we cannot inspire the conduct.
_Maxim 378._
The veracity which increases with old age is not far from folly.
_Maxim 416._
In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others
they love love.[796-3]
_Maxim 471._
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
_Maxim 496._
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that
is not exactly displeasing.[796-4]
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