When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable. [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.]
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.
He who has lived a day has lived an age.
We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice
Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.
Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.
I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.
In art them is a point of perfection, as of goodness or maturity in nature; he who is able to perceive it, and who loves it, has perfect taste; he who does not feel it, or loves on this side or that, has an imperfect taste.
When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.
This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.
Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.
A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.
To delay is injustice.
When what you read elevates your mind and fills you with noble aspirations, look for no other rule by which to judge a book; it is good, and is the work of a master-hand.
No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.
Sudden love is latest cured.
We perceive when love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.
The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them.
How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!
One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.
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