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People reveal their character...

People reveal their character even in the simplest things they do. Fools do not enter a room, nor leave it, nor sit down, nor rise, nor are they silent, nor do they stand up, like people of sense and understanding.

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Love has this in common with ...

Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.

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Criticism is as often a trade...

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

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Life is a kind of sleep: old ...

Life is a kind of sleep: old men sleep longest, nor begin to wake but when they are to die.

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We wish to constitute all the...

We wish to constitute all the happiness, or, if that cannot be, the misery of the one we love.

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A dogmatic tone is generally ...

A dogmatic tone is generally inspired by abysmal ignorance. The man who knows nothing thinks he is informing others of something which he has that moment learnt; the man who knows a great deal can scarcely believe that people are ignorant of what he is telling them, and speaks more diffidently.

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When a man puts on a Characte...

When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.

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Men blush less for their crim...

Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and vanity. [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanite.]

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A good author, and one who wr...

A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.

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There is nothing which contin...

There is nothing which continues longer than a moderate fortune; nothing of which one sees sooner the end than a large fortune.

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A guilty man is punished as a...

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

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Pure friendship is something ...

Pure friendship is something which men of an inferior intellect can never taste.

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A vain man finds his account ...

A vain man finds his account in speaking good or evil of himself.

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It seems to me that the spiri...

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

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To what excesses do men rush ...

To what excesses do men rush for the sake of religion, of whose truth they are so little persuaded, and to whose precepts they pay so little regard!

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I never have wit until I am b...

I never have wit until I am below stairs. [Fr., Je n'ai jamais d'esprit qu'au bas de l'escalier.]

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Physiognomy is not a guide th...

Physiognomy is not a guide that has been given us by which to judge of the character of men: it may only serve us for conjecture. [Fr., La physionomie n'est pas une regle qui nous soit donnee pour juger des hommes; elle nous peut servir de conjecture.]

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Children enjoy the present be...

Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.

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A man can keep another's secr...

A man can keep another's secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.

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A mediocre mind thinks it wri...

A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.

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