XCVI.
'Tis a great mistake, to think that Love and Ambition triumph over all the other Passions: on the contrary, Sloth, notwithstanding all its languishment, hath many times a soveraignty over them;
Epictetus junior, or, Maximes of modern morality in two centuries / collected by J.D. of Kidwelly.
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- Epictetus junior, or, Maximes of modern morality in two centuries / collected by J.D. of Kidwelly.
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- La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, 1613-1680.
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this insensibly usurps an Em∣pire over all the designs, and over all the actions of life; this destroys and compleats all the Passions, and all the Virtues employ'd in the conduct of it.