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When you descant on the fault...

When you descant on the faults of others, consider whether you be not guilty of the same. To gain knowledge of ourselves, the best way is to convert the imperfections of others into a mirror for discovering our own.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

Were wisdom to be sold, she w...

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

The indulgence of revenge ten...

The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

Who hath not courage to reven...

Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

Ridicule, which chiefly arise...

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

Death, whether it regards our...

Death, whether it regards ourselves or others, appears less terrible in war than at home. The cries of women and children, friends in anguish, a dark room, dim tapers, priests and physicians, are what affect us the most on the death-bed. Behold us already more than half dead and buried.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

Seldom do we talk of ourselve...

Seldom do we talk of ourselves with success. If I condemn myself, more is believed than is expressed; if I praise myself, much less.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

To a zealot every one of his ...

To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to him children of perdition.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

Even dress is apt to inflame ...

Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

The sordid meal of the Cynics...

The sordid meal of the Cynics contributed neither to their tranquillity nor to their modesty. Pride went with Diogenes into his tub; and there he had the presumption to command Alexander the haughtiest of all men.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

Nothing so uncertain as gener...

Nothing so uncertain as general reputation. A man injures me from humor, passion, or interest; hates me because he has injured me; and speaks ill of me because he hates me.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

Parsimony is enough to make t...

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

No man ever did a designed in...

No man ever did a designed injury to another, but at the same time he did a greater to himself.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

Custom is the great leveller....

Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

Such is the power of imaginat...

Such is the power of imagination, that even a chimerical pleasure in expectation affects us more than a solid pleasure in possession.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

Luxury possibly may contribut...

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

Men are guided less by consci...

Men are guided less by conscience than by glory; and yet the shortest way to glory is to be guided by conscience.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

The truly generous is the tru...

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

An agreeable figure and winni...

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

Every man, however little, ma...

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

Henry Home Lord Kames 24 quotes

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