“When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.”
Time“Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.”
Men“When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.”
Time“Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.”
Men“Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.”
Great“Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.”
Age“It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.”
Love“A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.”
Friendship“There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.”
Men“Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.”
Great“We pardon to the extent that we love.”
Love“They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.”
Great“Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.”
Future“We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.”
Love“We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.”
Strength“No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.”
Men“Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.”
Hope“Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.”
Men“There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.”
Men“It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.”
Age“Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.”
Men“On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.”
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