 ... enough to bear the ills of others. If we had no pride, we should not complain that others had it. We easily forget our faults when no one else knows them. . . . We try to be proud of the faults that we do not wish to forget.  Modern French Literature - Page 60by Benjamin Willis Wells - 1896 - 510 pagesFull view - About this book
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...24. The most delicious of pleasures is to give pleasure to others. — The Same. 25. We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore. — La Rochefoucauld. 26. We should often be ashamed of our best actions if all the motives that inspired... | |
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...do not wish to forget. We promise according to our hopes; we keep according to our fears. We pardon those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom...Voltaire, in Stendhal, and most clearly in the French philosopher, Chamfort, and his greater successor, the German Schopenhauer. But its value as literature... | |
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