And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.
A man must either imitate the vicious or hate them.
Silence and modesty are very valuable qualities in conversation.
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear.
Every one's true worship was that which he found in use in the place where he chanced to be.
The human face is a weak guarantee; yet it deserves some consideration. And if I had to whip the wicked, I would do so more severely to those who belied and betrayed the promises that nature had implanted on their brows; I would punish malice more harshly when it was hidden under a kindly appearance.
If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.
The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.
To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen.
Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to sell to the crowd for gain; and some there are, and not the worst, who seek no other profit than to look at the show and see how and why everything is done; spectators of the life of other people in order to judge and regulate their own.
Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.
To die is not to play a part in society; it is the act of a single person. Let us live and laugh among our friends; let us die and sulk among strangers.
Certainly, if he still has himself, a man of understanding has lost nothing.
Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.
Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.
Glory and repose are things that cannot possibly inhabit in one and the same place.
The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.
How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!
I turn my gaze inward. I fix it there and keep it busy. I look inside myself. I continually observe myself.
I find that the best virtue I have has in it some tincture of vice.
An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.
Examples teach us that in military affairs, and all others of a like nature, study is apt to enervate and relax the courage of man, rather than to give strength and energy to the mind.
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