The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.
It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other advantages, than the manner in which they are distributed and the kind of men who have the largest share.
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
Born merely for the purpose of digestion.
If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.
For some people, speaking and giving offence are one and the same thing. They are spiteful and bitter; their style is infused with gall and wormwood; mockery, abuse and insults flow from their lips like spittle.
One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.
It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.
Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
A man who has schemed for some time can no longer do without it; all other ways of living are to him dull and insipid.
As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid.
The lives of heroes have enriched history, and history has adorned the actions of heroes ; and thus I cannot say whether the historians are more indebted to those who provided them with such noble materials, or those great men to their historians.
When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
Eloquence is to the sublime what the whole is to the part.
From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.
We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued.
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death.
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