We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy, caprice and prejudice.
A man may doubt of God's existence when he is in good health, just as he may doubt whether his relation with a harlot is sinful. When he falls ill, when dropsy develops, he leaves his concubine, and he believes in God.
Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.
The same vices which are huge and insupportable in others we do not feel in ourselves.
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty.
It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.
The most exquisite pleasure is giving pleasure to others.
Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued.
If you wish to be held in esteem, you must ssociate only with those who estimable.
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.
Born merely for the purpose of digestion.
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
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.
Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit.
Envy and hatred go together. Mutually strengthened by the fact pursue the same object.
One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.
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.
Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.
It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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