Lesson INDEX. PART I. AUTHENTIC PIECES IN PROSE. 1 Forgiveness of Injuries 2 The Belief in Retribution salutary 3 The Country of the Sage 4 The Sage too long neglected 5 Bless and Curse not 6 Durable Satisfaction 7 Time well chosen 8 Fanaticism confounded 9 The best Dinner Hour 10 The Measure of a King 11 True Learning is modest 12 Friendship has Limits 13 Guns not made for Brothers 14 It is more glorious to spare than to kill 15 Hunger is often impatient 16 A soft Answer turns away Wrath 17 Familiarity made a Mark of Respect 18 Never too Old to learn 19 The Sympathy of Interest 20 Self Reproach a sufficient Reproach 21 To prevent Evil is to do Good 22 True Hospitality is never Impiety 23 Gout the Touchstone of Courtesy 24 Prayer a Cure for Revenge 25 Whatever is is right 26 27 A Friend in need Filial Love the charm of Youth 28 Malice answered by Silence 29 A Teacher should be Free 30 Actions must be judged by Motives 31 Self-Interest a false Standard of Judgement 32 Better to be put to Death for Innocence than for Guilt 33 An Enemy an incompetent Witness 54 True Nobility not inconsistent with Labor 35 Trifling Indulgences form the Basis of destructive Habits 36 Selfishness a Cure for Gaming 37 The Remembered are not dead 38 To live by the Death of those we love is to die twice 39 Good Deeds outlive great Tombs 40 To do without is to obtain 41 The Ocean no Flatterer. 42 Cruelty checked by Firmness 43 Honesty is the best Policy 44 Love of Country stronger than even maternal Love 45 Laconics Lesson 52 To live well is to live long 55 The Ass without Manners 56 The Reformed should be encouraged 57 No Confidence where there is no Principle 58 Solitude no Retreat from bad Passions 59 Ignorance best concealed by silence 60 Forgiveness our Interest as well as our Duty 61 The Expectation of Wealth an Obstacle to Education 62 Resignation and Patience, royal Virtues 63 Death disarmed by Christian Philosophy 83 84 An upright Judge is no Respecter of Persons 85 The Unfortunate our Neighbor 86 The Reformed Child the Dearest 87 Socrates the Pagan Christian 88 Aristides another Name for Justice 89 Misfortune the best Test of Courage and true Greatness 90 Authentic History of Joan of Arc 91 Literary Vanity insatiable 92 Literary Vanity is always blind PART II. ABRIDGED COMEDIES OF MOLIERE IN PROSE. I. Le Médecin malgré lui, the Physician in spite of himself IV V III. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, the would-be Gentleman Author. Page Lebailly 148 Mollevaut 143 149 Villiers 149 Ferandière 149 Ducereau 150 Anonymous 150 Barbe 150 Lesson 12 Unattainable Goods are worthless 14 The Low sink to their Levei 15 Half a Loaf is better than no Bread 20 Endurance is a Virtue if not a Protection 21 The most durable Qualities the most valuable 22 Time has a Current, but no Tides 23 The too Aspiring trip easily 24 The minutest are not overlooked 25 Contempt is often Revenge enough 26 Rome was not built in a Day 27 Former Prosperity embitters Adversity 29 Nature a Stranger at Court 30 Forgiveness the highest Virtue 31 Echo not a Free Agent 32 Thunder not amenable to Kings 33 Every Man is the most important Man 34 Reason an unpopular Book 35 Self Reproach the worst Reproach 36 Patience the best Armor 37 Our Pleasures should never give Pain to others 38 Selfishness is often Self-Denied 39 Preparation must precede Action 40 No Citizen entirely useless 41 The Current of Vice is not weakened by running 42 Pretty is that pretty does 43 Calumny cannot long tarnish Virtue 44 A Prohibition is sometimes an Incentive 45 The High rest on the Low 46 The Wicked must sleep 48 Pleasures grow on Thorns 49 The Sufferer not the greatest Criminal 50 The World sometimes a cure for Arrogance 51 Speak rightly or not at all 52 Ostentatious Charity a counterfeit Virtue 54 A corrupt Taste seeks corrupt Food 55 Merit shuns Observation 56 Contention benefits neither Party 58 The Unfortunate cease to be Enemies 60 The Leopard does not change his Spots 64 An Ass without Ears is not a Horse 65 A Smatterer is not a Scholar 66 Labor is Wealth 67 The sick Wolf is a Lamb 68 The Bird of Passage needs but a slight Nest 69 Precocity is ill Maturity 70 All are equally fair in the Dark 71 Intemperance the Prime Minister of Death 72 Christianity the true Philosophy 73 Conquerors are not Founders but Destroyers 74 The willing Slave deserves not Freedom 75 Self the Criterion of Perfection 76 To contend for is not always to obtain 77 Unintelligible Language is a Lantern without a Light 78 Distant Misery is seldom realized 79 Complaints of Tyranny are not always whispered Lesson 82 Lost Reputation is hardly regained 83 The God of the Sick is the God of the Well also 84 Sound Fruit will not restore the Rotten Author. Page 85 The Example of a Parent more powerful than the Precepts of a Teacher 86 Vanity the Wife of Folly 87 Fools rush in where Wise Men dare not tread 88 The artificial Flower lacks Perfume 89 The Wolf is not long a Sheep 90 Independence must have Limits 91 Benignity is the Charm of Beauty 92 The Gentle bend, the Stubborn break 93 Happiness fears not the Future and regrets not the Past 94 The Dress is not the Man 95 The Straightest Road is the Shortest 96 A burnt Child dreads the Fire 97 Faults go in Trains 98 Butterflies are not Eagles 99 Fair Words cost nothing 100 It is better to suffer than to do a Wrong 101 One Counseller, if good, is enough 102 Sleeplessness the Kings Evil 103 Whip not the Dog for the Fault of his Master 105 Modesty graces every other Virtue 196 Novelty soon grows old 107 Peace makes Plain Fare a Luxury 108 Elevation is Exposure 109 The Good Old Times never existed 111 112 113 114 115 Beauty is transient, Virtue immortal 117 118 119 120 121 A Hypocrite worse than an open Villain 122 Self Love sees no Decay 123 Vanity the Preservative of Beauty Virtue the true Source of Happiness 126 Mutual Suffering should produce Sympathy 131 Time and Tide regard not Pride 132 Indiscretion often leads to Crime 133 The wisest need Advice 134 Interest knows neither Reason nor Justice |