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We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
Men will die for an opinion as soon as for anything else.
Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.
A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.
A great mind is one that can forget or look beyond itself.
As we are poetical in our natures, so we delight in fable.
The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
Landscape painting is the obvious resource of misanthropy.
No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.
Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Lying is the strongest acknowledgement of the force of truth.
Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
Horus non numero nisi serenas (I count only the sunny hours).
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
The multitude who require to be led, still hate their leaders.
When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.
None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so.
We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit.
The last pleasure in life is the sense of discharging our duty.
It is better to desire than to enjoy, to love than to be loved.
The English (it must be owned) are rather a foul-mouthed nation.
He will never have true friends who is afraid of making enemies.
Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.
Prejudice is never easy unless it can pass itself off for reason.
The ignorance of the world leaves one at the mercy of its malice.
The vices are never so well employed as in combating one another.
The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.
The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship.
Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves.
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
A nickname is the hardest stone that the devil can throw at a man.
The best part of our lives we pass in counting on what is to come.
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.
Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.
The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
While we desire, we do not enjoy; and with enjoyment desire ceases.
It is better to drink of deep grief than to taste shallow pleasures.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.
I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.
There are names written in her immortal scroll at which Fame blushes!
When we forget old friends, it is a sign we have forgotten ourselves.
It is essential to the triumph of reform that it should never succeed.