Book viii
. Fable 19._
No path of flowers leads to glory.
_Book x. Fable 14._
FOOTNOTES:
[797-1] Remember the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.--_Ecclesiasticus iii. 36._
[797-2] Sour grapes.
[797-3] See Herbert, page 206.
JEAN BAPTISTE MOLIÈRE. 1622-1673.
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
_L'École des Femmes. Act ii. Sc. 6._
There are fagots and fagots.
_Le Médecin malgré lui. Act i. Sc. 6._
We have changed all that.
_Le Médecin malgré lui. Act ii. Sc. 6._
Although I am a pious man, I am not the less a man.
_Le Tartuffe. Act iii. Sc. 3._
The real Amphitryon is the Amphitryon who gives dinners.[798-1]
_Amphitryon. Act iii. Sc. 5._
Ah that I-- You would have it so, you would have it so; George Dandin, you would have it so! This suits you very nicely, and you are served right; you have precisely what you deserve.
_George Dandin. Act i. Sc. 19._
Tell me to whom you are addressing yourself when you say that.
I am addressing myself--I am addressing myself to my cap.
_L'Avare. Act i. Sc. 3._
The beautiful eyes of my cash-box.
_L'Avare. Act v. Sc. 3._
You are speaking before a man to whom all Naples is known.
_L'Avare. Act v. Sc. 5._
My fair one, let us swear an eternal friendship.[798-2]
_Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Act iv. Sc. 1._
I will maintain it before the whole world.
_Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. Act iv. Sc. 5._
What the devil did he want in that galley?[798-3]
_Les Fourberies de Scapin. Act ii. Sc. 11._
Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.[798-4]
_Les Femmes savantes. Act ii. Sc. 6._
Ah, there are no longer any children!
_Le Malade Imaginaire. Act ii. Sc. 11._
FOOTNOTES:
[798-1] See Dryden, page 277.
[798-2] See Frere, page 462.
[798-3] Borrowed from Cyrano de Bergerac's "Pédant joué," act ii. sc. 4.
[798-4] Sigismund I. at the Council of Constance, 1414, said to a prelate who had objected to his Majesty's grammar, "Ego sum rex Romanus, et supra grammaticam" (I am the Roman emperor, and am above grammar).
BLAISE PASCAL. 1623-1662.
(_Translated by O. W. Wight._)
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
_Thoughts. Chap. ii. 10._
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
_Thoughts. Chap. iv. 1._
Montaigne[799-1] is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.
_Thoughts. Chap. iv. 6._
Thus we never live, but we hope to live; and always disposing ourselves to be happy, it is inevitable that we never become so.[799-2]
_Thoughts. Chap. v. 2._
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
_Thoughts. Chap. viii. 29._
The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.
_Thoughts. Chap. ix. 30._
Rivers are highways that move on, and bear us whither we wish to go.
_Thoughts. Chap. ix. 38._
What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe![799-3]
_Thoughts. Chap. x. 1._
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
_Thoughts. Chap. x. 1._
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?[799-4]
_Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum._
FOOTNOTES:
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