...our own turn, or in reaping something from the good fortune of our friends. (1665, No. 97.) XV. — In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us. (1665, No. 99.) [This gave occasion to Swift's celebrated "Verses on hia...

...298. In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.4 Maxim 471. In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to US.' Reflections xv. 1 This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but...

...298. In their first passion women love their lovers, in all the others they love love.4 Maxim 471. In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to US.6 Refiectims xv. 1 This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but...

...expositor of the selfish theory of morals. Some temporary bitterness must have got possession of tim ; for whereas in his MS. volume he simply said : ' The...always find something which is not displeasing to us.' AVe have seen that the aberration did not last long, since in the following year he made a massacre...

...is a celebrated maxim, vainly " suppressed " by the author, after first publication : — No. 583. In the adversity of our best friends, we always find something which does not displease us." Before La Rochefoucauld, Montaigne had said, "Even in the midst of compassion,...

...great teacher; adversity is a greater. 60 Hazlitt : Sketches and Essays. On the Conversation of Lords. In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us. 61 La Rochefoucauld : Reflections. No. 15. Great men often rejoice at crosses...

...but, since her time, history will inform you, that men have done much more mischief in the world 1 ' In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us.' — La Rochefoucauld. than women ; and, to say the truth, I would not advise...

...ashamed to be silent. We prefer seeing those to whom we do good, to seeing those who do good to us. In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which does not displease us. There are none who hurry others so much as the slothful when they have gratified...

...seen them ; " " Virtues lose themselves in self-interest as rivers lose themselves in the sea ; " " In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which does not displease us" — such are the moral comments on life graven in ineffaceable lines by La Rochefoucauld....

...ashamed to be silent. We prefer seeing those to whom we do good, to seeing those who do good to us. In the adversity of our best friends we always find, something which does not displease us. There are none who hurry others so much as the slothful when they have gratified...