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Table of Contents

       INTRODUCTION.

       CHAPTER I. — GENERAL RULES.

       SECTION 1.

       SECTION 2. To estimate a man's condition in regard to happiness, it is

       SECTION 3. Care should be taken not to build the happiness of life

       CHAPTER II. — OUR RELATION TO OURSELVES.—

       SECTION 4.

       SECTION 5. Another important element in the wise conduct of life is to

       SECTION 6. Limitations always make for happiness . We are happy in

       SECTION 7. Whether we are in a pleasant or a painful state depends,

       SECTION 8. To live a life that shall be entirely prudent and discreet,

       SECTION 9. To be self-sufficient, to be all in all to oneself, to

       SECTION 10. Envy is natural to man; and still, it is at once a vice

       SECTION 11. Give mature and repeated consideration to any plan before

       SECTION 12.

       SECTION 13. In all matters affecting our weal or woe, we should be

       SECTION 14. The sight of things which do not belong to us is very apt

       SECTION 15. The things which engage our attention—whether they are

       SECTION 16. We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires,

       SECTION 17. Life consists in movement, says Aristotle; and he is

       SECTION 18. A man should avoid being led on by the phantoms of his

       SECTION 19. The preceding rule may be taken as a special case of the

       SECTION 20. In the first part of this work I have insisted upon the

       CHAPTER III. — OUR RELATION TO OTHERS.—

       SECTION 22. It is astonishing how easily and how quickly similarity,

       SECTION 23. No man can see over his own height. Let me explain what

       SECTION 24. I feel respect for the man—and he is one in a

       SECTION 25. La Rochefoucauld makes the striking remark that it is

       SECTION 26. Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really

       SECTION 27. When any wrong statement is made, whether in public or

       SECTION 28. Men are like children, in that, if you spoil them, they

       SECTION 29. It is often the case that people of noble character and

       SECTION 30. No man is so formed that he can be left entirely to

       Naturam expelles furca, tamen usque recurret .

       SECTION 31. A man bears the weight of his own body without knowing it,

       SECTION 32. When he is young, a man of noble character fancies that

       SECTION 33. As paper-money circulates in the world instead of real

       SECTION 34. A man must be still a greenhorn in the ways of the

       SECTION 35. Our trust in other people often consists in great measure

       SECTION 36. Politeness ,—which the Chinese hold to be a cardinal

       SECTION 37. You ought never to take any man as a model for what you

       SECTION 38. Never combat any man's opinion; for though you reached the

       SECTION 39. If you want your judgment to be accepted, express it

       SECTION 40. Even when you are fully justified in praising

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