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How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!
She neglects her heart who too closely studies her glass.
He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.
Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.
Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.
Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.
The affectation of sanctity is a blotch on the face of piety.
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
Thousands are hated, while none are loved without a real cause
Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.
The loss of taste for what is right is loss of all right taste.
Habit is altogether too arbitrary a master for me to submit to.
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.
He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.
No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
The more honesty a man has, the less he affects the air of a saint.
Dread more the blunderer's friendship than the calumniator's enmity.
The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former honesty.
Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.
Where consequence ceases, there folly, restlessness and misery begin.
He who seeks to imbitter innocent pleasure has a cancer in his heart.
Neither refinement nor delicacy is indispensable to produce elegance.
She whom smiles and tears make equally lovely may command all hearts.
Fools learn nothing from wise men, but wise men learn much from fools.
Vociferation and calmness of character seldom meet in the same person.
The cruelty of the effeminate is more dreadful than that or the hardy.
He who can conceal his joys, is greater than he who can hide his griefs
As man's love or hatred, so he. Love and hatred exist only personified.
Weaknesses, so called, are nothing more nor less than vice in disguise!
He who can at all times sacrifice pleasure to duty approaches sublimity.
Who recollects distinctly his past adventures, knows his destiny to come.
He surely is most in need of another's patience, who has none of his own.
The policy of adapting one's self to circumstances makes all ways smooth.
You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other.
Not every one who has the gift of speech understands the value of silence.
The smiles that encourage severity of judgment hide malice and insincerity.
A fop of fashion is the mercer's friend, the tailor's fool, and his own foe.
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
All affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear rich
Who has witnessed one free and unconstrained act of yours, has witnessed all.
Existence is self-enjoyment, by means of some object distinct from ourselves.
Wishes run over in loquacious impotence, will presses on with laconic energy.
The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
Have I done aught of value to my fellow-men? Then have I done much for myself.
Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.
The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...