The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.
If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray.
The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.
Crimes generally punish themselves.
It has been well observed that few are better qualified to give others advice than those who have taken the least of it themselves.
When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
In two opposite opinions, if one be perfectly reasonable, the other can't be perfectly right.
There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.
Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
The soul may be compared to a field of battle, where the armies are ready every moment to encounter. Not a single vice but has a more powerful opponent, and not one virtue but may be overborne by a combination of vices.
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
The English laws punish vice; the Chinese laws do more, they reward virtue.
The first blow is half the battle.
An Englishman fears contempt more than death.
Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.
Silence gives consent.
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
The ingratitude of the world can never deprive us of the conscious happiness of having acted with humanity ourselves.
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a book over I have perused before, it resembles the meeting with an old one.
Little things are great to little men.
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