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Men's minds are too ready to excuse guilt in themselves.
No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level.
Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.
Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.
We can endure neither our vices nor the remedies for them.
The study of History is the best medicine for a sick mind.
It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.
Resistance to criminal rashness comes better late than never.
Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.
Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.
Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
An honor prudently declined often returns with increased luster.
The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
There is nothing worse than being ashamed of parsimony or poverty.
Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.
Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself.
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances.
Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.
In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.
Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.
Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.
Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.
The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
That business does not prosper which you transact with the eyes of others.
Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.
It is when fortune is the most propitious that she is least to be trusted.
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.
You know how to vanquish, Hannibal, but you do not know how to profit from victory.
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.
Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
They are more than men at the outset of their battles; at the end they are less than the women.
It is better that a guilty man should not be brought to trial than that he should be acquitted.
There is nothing man will not attempt when great enterprises hold out the promise of great rewards.
All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.
The troubles which have come upon us always seem more serious than those which are only threatening.
In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.
Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
Toil and pleasure, in their natures opposite, are yet linked together in a kind of necessary connection.
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.