Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la RochefoucauldW. Gowans, 1851 - 189 páginas |
No interior do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 23
Página iii
... praise . Huet describes him as possessing a nervous temperament , which would not allow him to accept a seat in the French Academy , owing to his want of courage to make a public speech . The Duke de Rochefoucauld died with philosophic ...
... praise . Huet describes him as possessing a nervous temperament , which would not allow him to accept a seat in the French Academy , owing to his want of courage to make a public speech . The Duke de Rochefoucauld died with philosophic ...
Página xi
... praise than this to the style of the " Maxims , " to which , no doubt , the work owes a great part of its popularity . If not precisely the in- ventor , La Rochefoucauld is , at all events , the model of this mode of writing , in which ...
... praise than this to the style of the " Maxims , " to which , no doubt , the work owes a great part of its popularity . If not precisely the in- ventor , La Rochefoucauld is , at all events , the model of this mode of writing , in which ...
Página 21
... praise or blame bestowed on them . 60 . There are no circumstances , however unfor- tunate , that clever people do not extract some 57. " If a man wishes to become rich , he must appear to be rich . " - GOLDSMITH . According to Juvenal ...
... praise or blame bestowed on them . 60 . There are no circumstances , however unfor- tunate , that clever people do not extract some 57. " If a man wishes to become rich , he must appear to be rich . " - GOLDSMITH . According to Juvenal ...
Página 23
... praise which has not been bestowed on prudence ; nevertheless , however great it may be , it cannot assure us of the least event , because its subject is man -the most changeable in the world . 67 . A clever man should regulate his ...
... praise which has not been bestowed on prudence ; nevertheless , however great it may be , it cannot assure us of the least event , because its subject is man -the most changeable in the world . 67 . A clever man should regulate his ...
Página 33
... init . 97. " La première chose qui arrive aux hommes après avoir renoncé aux plaisirs c'est les condamner dans les autres . " - LA BRUYERE , De l'Homme . see those most envious of it constrained to praise . MORAL SENTENCES . 33.
... init . 97. " La première chose qui arrive aux hommes après avoir renoncé aux plaisirs c'est les condamner dans les autres . " - LA BRUYERE , De l'Homme . see those most envious of it constrained to praise . MORAL SENTENCES . 33.
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld François duc de La Rochefoucauld Visualização integral - 1851 |
Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld François duc de La Rochefoucauld Visualização integral - 1851 |
Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld François La Rochefoucauld Pré-visualização indisponível - 2013 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
actions agreeable Aphorisms Apophthegms appear believe bestowed BOOK OF PROVERBS BRUYERE c'est CARDINAL DE RETZ Cardinal Mazarin causes celebrated character Charles XII clever Cœur Collection conceal Confucius contempt courage death deceived desire despise disguise Divine Duke edition envy esteem être evil fait fancy faults fear flatter folly fool fortune friends friendship give happy heart hommes human humor indolence interest jealousy King KING OF POLAND l'Homme L'on La Bruyère La Rochefoucauld lives London Manetho ments merit mind misfortunes Montaigne motive nature never observes opinion ourselves pains Paris passions Pensées person Philosophe pleasure praise pride Proverbs Publius Syrus qu'il qualities reason remarks render reputation RETZ Rochefoucauld self-love sensible SENTENCES AND MAXIMS Sententiæ sometimes soul speak STANISLAUS Tacitus taste thing Thoughts tion Translated into English Troilus and Cressida truth vanity vice virtue virtuous vols weak Wisdom wise wish women writing Zoroaster
Passagens conhecidas
Página 83 - 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!
Página 55 - 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.
Página 50 - 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
Página 75 - As Rochefoucault his maxims drew From nature, I believe them true: They argue no corrupted mind In him; the fault is in mankind.
Página 16 - 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.
Página xxii - 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.
Página 79 - 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.
Página xii - 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...
Página 33 - cui sic extorta voluptas et demptus per vim mentis gratissimus error».
Página 55 - 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.