Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
Silence is less injurious than a weak reply.
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in.
Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.
There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.
The man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most men are.
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.
I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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