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The crowns of kings do not prevent those who wear them from being tormented sometimes by violent headaches. - [Station] The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best. - [Friends] The giving riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever. - [Honor] The human heart becomes softened by hearing of instances of gentleness and consideration. - [Gentleness] The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited. - [Learning] The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil. - [Omission] The talkative listen to no one, for they are ever speaking. And the first evil that attends those who know not to be silent is that they hear nothing. - [Talking] The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose. - [Enjoyment] Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost. - [Speech] There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it. - [Wine and Spirits] There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue. - [Politics] Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit. - [Praise] Those who are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit. - [Praise] Thus the greater proportion of mankind are more sensitive to contemptuous language than unjust acts; for they can less easily bear insult than wrong. - [Insult] Time is the wisest of all counselors. - [Time] To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. - [Biography] To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing. - [Action : Courage] To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. - [Faults] To please the many is to displease the wise. - [Popularity] Under the veil of these curious sentences are hid those germs of morals which the masters of philosophy have afterwards developed into so many volumes. - [Apothegms] We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature. - [Custom] We must prune it with care, so as only to remove the redundant branches, and not injure the stem, which has its root in the generous sensitiveness to shame. - [Bashfulness] We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful. - [Friends] We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most. - [Books] What can they suffer that do not fear to die? - [Death] Displaying page 4 of 7 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7
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