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2010年1月12日
1--Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.
2--Self-love is the greatest
3--Self love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world.
4--The duration of our passions is no more dependant upon
5--Passion often rendersthe most clever man a fool,and even sometimes renders the most foolish man clever.
6--In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions;so that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.
2010年1月13日
1--Passions often produce their contraries:avarice sometimes leads to prodigality ,and prodigality to avarice;we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity.
2--Whatever care we take to conceal our passions under
3--The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people.
4--This clemency of which they make a merit,arises oftentimes from vanity,sometimes from idleness,oftentimes from fear,and almost always from all three combined.
5--We have all sufficient strength to support the misfortunes of others.
6--The constancy of the
2010年1月14日
1--Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it;so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.
2--People are often vain of their passions,even of the worst,but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.
3--Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable,as it tends to preserve a good which belongs,or which we believe belongs to us,on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.
4--The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.
5--We have more strength than will;and it is often merely for an excuse we say things are impossible.
2010年1月15日
1--If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.
2--If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.
3--Pride is much the same in all men,the only difference is the method and manner of showing it.
4--Interest speaks all sorts of tongues and plays all sorts of characters;even that of disinterestedness.
5--Interest blinds some and makes some see.
2010年1月16日
1--Those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things.
2--We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.
3--Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.
4--Happiness is in the taste,and not in the things themselves;we are happy from possessing what we like,not from possessing what other like.
5--We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
6--Whatever difference there appears in our fortunes,there is nevertheless a certain compensation of good and evil which renders them equal.
7--Whatever great advantages nature may give,it is not the alone,but fortune also that makes the hero.
8--To esatablish ourselves in the world we do everything to appear as if we were established.
9--There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skilful men will not draw some advantage,nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt.
10--Fortune turns all things to the advantage of those on whom she smiles.
2010年1月18日
1--The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than their fortune.
2--Sincerity is an openness of heart;we find it very few people;what we usually see is only an artful dissimulation to win the confidence of other.
3--What grace is to the body good sense is to the mind.
4--There is no disguise which can long hide love where it exists,nor feign it where it does not.
5--If we judge of love by the majority of its results it rather resembles hatred than friendship.
6--Silence is the best resolve for him who distrusts himself.
2010年1月28日
1--We can love nothing but what agrees with us,and we can noly follow our taste or our pleasure when we prefer our friends to ourselves;nevertheless it is only by that preference that friendship can be true and perfect.
2--It is more disgraceful to distrust than to be deceived by our friends.
3--Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.
4--Men would not live long in society were they not the dupes of each other.
5--Everyone blames his memory,no one blames his judgment.
6--In the intercourse of life,we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.
7--The test of extraordinary merit is to see those who envy it the most yet obliged to praise it.
8--Everyone praises his heart,none dare praise their understanding.
9--Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts.
10--Gallantry of mind is saying the most empty things in an agreeable manner.
11--Nothing is given so profusely as advice.
2010年1月31日
1--We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at last we are disguised to ourselves.
2--We often act treacherously more from weakness than from a fixed motive.
3--If we conquer our passions it is more from their weakness than from our strength.
4--The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind,it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.
5--Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.
6--The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
7--Too great cleverness is but deceptive delicacy,true delicacy is the most substantial cleverness.
8--It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.
9--Weakness is the only fault which cannot be cured.
10--When not prompted by vanity we say little.
11--One of the reasons that we find so few persons rational and agreeable in conversation is there is hardly a person who does not think more of what he wants to say than of his answer to what is said.The most clever and polite are content with only seeming attentive while we perceive in their mind and eyes that at the very time they are wandering from what is said and desire to return to what they want to say.Instead of considering that the worst way to persuade or please others to try thus strongly to please ourselves,and that to listen well and to answer well are some of the greatest charms we can have in conversation.
12--We often boast that we are never bored,but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.
13--As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words,so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.
14--Usually we only praise to be praised.