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Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.] - Maximes (276) [Absence] There is a season for man's merit as well as for fruit. [Fr., Le merite des hommes a sa saison aussi bien que les fruits.] - Maximes (291) [Merit] We sometimes think that we hate flattery, but we only hate the manner in which it is done. [Fr., On croit quelquefoir hair la flatterie; maid on ne hait que a maniere de flatter.] - Maximes (329) [Flattery] The accent of one's country dwells in the mind and in the heart as much as in the language. [Fr., L'accent du pays ou l'on est ne demeure dans l'esprit et dans le coeur comme dans le langage.] - Maximes (342) [Language] A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.] - Maximes (387) [Folly] That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own. [Fr., Ce qui nous rend la vanite des autres insupportable, c'est qu'elle blesse la notre.] - Maximes (389) [Vanity] There is merit without elevation, but there is no elevation without some merit. [Fr., Il y a du merite sans elevation mais il n'y a point d'elevation sans quelque merite.] - Maximes (401) [Merit] It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually. [Fr., Il est plus aise de connaitre l'homme en general que de connaitre un homme en particulier.] - Maximes (436) [Man] Few persons know how to be old. [Fr., Peu de gens savent etre vieux.] - Maximes (448) [Age] We sometimes see a fool possessed of talent, but never of judgment. [Fr., On est quelquefois un sot avec de l'esprit; mais on ne l'est jamais avec du jugement.] - Maximes (456) [Judgment] Old age is a tyrant who forbids, upon pain of death, all the pleasures of youth. [Fr., La vieillesse est un tyran qui defend, sur peine de al vie, tous les plaisirs de la jeunesse.] - Maximes (461) [Age] Truth does not do so much good in the world, as the appearance of it does evil. [Fr., La verite ne fait pas tant de bien dans le monde, que ses apparences y font de mal.] - Maximes (59) [Truth] Gallantry of mind consists in saying flattering things in an agreeable manner. - Maxims (103) [Flattery] The more we love a mistress, the nearer we are to hating her. - Maxims (114) [Love] Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised. - Maxims (179), (ed. 1665), in 4th ed. at head of "Reflexions" [Virtue] True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world! - Maxims (216) [Bravery] The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s'ennuient point d'etre ensemble; c'est qu'ils parlent toujours d'eux memes.] - Maxims (312) [Love] We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us. - Maxims (347) [Opinion] Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye. - Maxims (36) [Death] Fortune never seems so blind as to those upon whom she confers no favors. [Fr., La fortune ne parait jamais si aveugle qu' a ceux a qui elle ne fait pas de bien.] - Maxims (391) [Fortune] The head is always the dupe of the heart. - Maxims (no. 105) [Heart] It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. - Maxims (no. 110) [Coquetry] If we resist our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength. - Maxims (no. 125) [Passion] Too great refinement is false delicacy, and true delicacy is solid refinement. - Maxims (no. 131) [Comparison] The only good copies are those which exhibit the defects of bad originals. - Maxims (no. 136) [Painting] Displaying page 15 of 16 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 [15] 16
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