Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.
A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice.
Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.
When we lavish our money we rob our heir; when we merely save it we rob ourselves.
Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.
A party spirit betrays the greatest men to act as meanly as the vulgar herd.
It is in vain to ridicule a rich fool, for the laughers will be on his side.
To express truth is to write naturally, forcibly, and delicately.
The Great slight the men of wit, who have nothing but wit; the men of wit despise the Great, who have nothing but greatness; the good man pities them both, if with greatness or wit they have not virtue.
It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.
Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.
It is better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than to neglect our duty to the distressed.
False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense.
The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others.
There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.
The pleasure a man of honor enjoys in the consciousness of having performed his duty is a reward he pays himself for all his pains.
Women become attached to men by the intimacies they grant them; men are cured of their love by the same intimacies.
A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.
If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it; so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.
A coxcomb is one whom simpletons believe to be a man of merit.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.
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