 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations, English - 1878 - 896 pages
...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... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1881 - 1120 pages
...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... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - French literature - 1886 - 316 pages
...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,... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - Citations anglaises - 1889 - 720 pages
...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... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1891 - 296 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1897 - 466 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Dowden - History - 1897 - 484 pages
...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.... | |
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In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not displeasing to us. 
