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Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable. - [Contentment] Flattery is a sort of bad money, to which our vanity gives currency. - [Flattery] Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity. - [Flattery] For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes. - [Crime] Fortune and caprice govern the world. - [Government] Fortune makes folly her peculiar care.-Churchill. Old fools are more foolish than young ones. - [Fools] Fortune turns everything to the advantage of her favorites. - [Fortune] Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer. - [Friendship] Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other. - [Fortune] Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind. - [Taste] Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind. - [Manners] Gratitude is like the good faith of traders--it maintains commerce; and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us. - [Gratitude] Gravity is a mysterious carriage of the body invented to cover the defects of the mind. - [Gravity] Great men should not have great faults. - [Greatness] Great minds lower, instead of elevate, those who do not know how to support them. - [Mind] Great names degrade instead of elevating those who know not how to sustain them. - [Names] Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than the common, but those only who have greater designs. - [Greatness] Had we not faults of our own we should take less pleasure in observing those of others. - [Faults] Happiness is in taste and not in things; and it is by having what we love that we are happy, not by having what others find agreeable. - [Happiness] Hatred is stronger than friendship. - [Hatred] He is a truly good man who desires always to bear the inspection of good men. - [Goodness] He is not a reasonable man who by chance stumbles upon reason, but he who derives it from knowledge, from discernment, and from taste. - [Reason] He is safe who admits no one to his confidence. - [Confidence] He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken. - [Dependence : World] He who thinks he can find in himself the means of doing without others is much mistaken; but he who thinks that others cannot do without him is still more mistaken. - [Egotism] Displaying page 3 of 16 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
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