Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.
It is motive alone that gives real value to the actions of men, and disinterestedness puts the cap to it.
Love begins with love ; and the warmest friendship cannot change even to the coldest love.
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!
He who can wait for what he desires takes the course not to be exceedingly grieved if he fails of it; he, on the contrary, who labors after a thing too impatiently thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
Both as to high and low indifferently, men are prepossessed, charmed, fascinated by success; successful crimes are praised very much like virtue itself, and good fortune is not far from occupying the place of the whole cycle of virtues. It must be an atrocious act, a base and hateful deed, which success would not be able to justify.
Languages are no more than the keys of Sciences. He who despises one, slights the other.
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.
Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.
A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.
There are but two ways of rising in the world: either by one's own industry or profiting by the foolishness of others. [Fr., Il n'y a au monde que deux manieres de s'elever, ou par sa propre industrie, ou par l'imbecilite des autres.]
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.
One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.
Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.
Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.
A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.
To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!
We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.
The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.
The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.
He who has lived a day has lived an age.
The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.
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.]
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