Footnotes
[794:2] This epigraph, which is the key to the system of La Rochefoucauld, is found in another form as No. 179 of the Maxims of the first edition, 1665; it is omitted from the second and third, and reappears for the first time in the fourth edition at the head of the Reflections.—Aime Martin.
[794:3] See Goldsmith, page [401].
[795:1] See Shelley, page [566].
[796:1] See Walpole, page [304].
[796:2] "That was excellently observed," say I when I read a passage in another where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, then I pronounce him to be mistaken.—Swift: Thoughts on Various Subjects.
[796:3] See Byron, page [557].
[796:4] This reflection, No. 99 in the edition of 1665, the author suppressed in the third edition.
In all distresses of our friends
We first consult our private ends;
While Nature, kindly bent to ease us,
Points out some circumstance to please us.
Dean Swift: A Paraphrase of Rochefoucauld's Maxim.
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J. DE LA FONTAINE. 1621-1695.
The opinion of the strongest is always the best.
The Wolf and the Lamb. Book i. Fable 10.
By the work one knows the workman.
The Hornets and the Bees. Fable 21.
It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
The Cock and the Fox. Book ii. Fable 15.
It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.
Book iii. Fable 1.
In everything one must consider the end.[797:1]
The Fox and the Gnat. Fable 5.
"They are too green," he said, "and only good for fools."[797:2]
The Fox and the Grapes. Fable 11.
Help thyself, and God will help thee.[797:3]
Book vi. Fable 18.
The fly of the coach.
Book vii. Fable 9.
The sign brings customers.
The Fortune-Tellers. Fable 15.
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
The Use of Knowledge. Book viii. Fable 19.
No path of flowers leads to glory.
Book x. Fable 14.