“It is the glory and merit of some men to write well, and of others not to write at all”
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“It is the glory and merit of some men to write well, and of others not to write at all”
“Jesting is often only indigence of intellect”
“The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.”
“It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent”
“I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found”
“The majority of men devote the greater part of their lives to making their remaining years unhappy.”
“They that have lived a single day have lived an age”
“The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves”
“Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank”
“A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less”
“The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things”
“If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction”
“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before”
“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property”
“We are valued in this world at the rate we desire to be valued”
“To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal”
“A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich”
“We come too late to say anything which has not been said already”
“Liberality consists rather in giving reasonably than much”
“It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men”