Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la RochefoucauldW. Gowans, 1851 - 189 sider |
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Side iv
... human nature , and unfavorable to virtue , by giving it a principle in com- mon with vice . La Rochefoucauld attributed all the actions of men , good or bad , to the moving - spring of self - interest . Friendship is an exchange of good ...
... human nature , and unfavorable to virtue , by giving it a principle in com- mon with vice . La Rochefoucauld attributed all the actions of men , good or bad , to the moving - spring of self - interest . Friendship is an exchange of good ...
Side xiii
... human heart , that derives a momentary gratification from the oracular nature of these declarations of truth , which seem to be ex- empt from the faults and shortcomings of human reason , and to spring , with all the precision of ...
... human heart , that derives a momentary gratification from the oracular nature of these declarations of truth , which seem to be ex- empt from the faults and shortcomings of human reason , and to spring , with all the precision of ...
Side xv
... human actions , it seems not altogether fair to charge him with the inculcation of any particular theory or system , in the same manner as if the maxims were formal deductions from a regularly reasoned treatise , instead of being , as ...
... human actions , it seems not altogether fair to charge him with the inculcation of any particular theory or system , in the same manner as if the maxims were formal deductions from a regularly reasoned treatise , instead of being , as ...
Side xvii
... human motives . An action may be externally virtuous ; but , when the motive comes to be examined , may prove to be deserving of censure rather than commendation . And it is evident that , to constitute a virtuous action a virtuous ...
... human motives . An action may be externally virtuous ; but , when the motive comes to be examined , may prove to be deserving of censure rather than commendation . And it is evident that , to constitute a virtuous action a virtuous ...
Side xviii
... human pride ; but , on the other hand , La Rochefoucauld is very far from de- nying , as has been represented , the reality of virtue . Sev- eral of the maxims show a complete recognition of its existence , and indeed a desire that it ...
... human pride ; but , on the other hand , La Rochefoucauld is very far from de- nying , as has been represented , the reality of virtue . Sev- eral of the maxims show a complete recognition of its existence , and indeed a desire that it ...
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Side 25 - 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.
Side 53 - 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!
Side 20 - 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
Side 4 - 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.
Side xii - 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.
Side 49 - 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.
Side ii - 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...
Side 3 - cui sic extorta voluptas et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error».
Side 25 - 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.
Side 43 - So high in merit, and to them so dear. They dwell on praises, which they think they share ; And thus, without a blush, commend themselves. Some mourn, in proof, that something they could love: They weep not to relieve their grief, but show.