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A man may have intelligence en...

A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he ought to be silent on some other subject of which he has but a slight knowledge; if such an illustrious man ventures beyond the bounds of his capacity, he loses his way and talks like a fool.

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A man must have very eminent q...

A man must have very eminent qualities to hold his own without being polite.

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When we are dead we are praise...

When we are dead we are praised by those who survive us, though we frequently have no other merit than that of being no longer alive.

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As riches and honor forsake a ...

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

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Piety with some people, but es...

Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

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Party loyalty lowers the great...

Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.

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There are some extraordinary f...

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seem, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

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It is often easier as well as ...

It is often easier as well as more advantageous to conform to other men's opinions than to bring them over to ours.

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There are few wives so perfect...

There are few wives so perfect as not to give their husbands at least once a day good reason to repent of ever having married, or at least of envying those who are unmarried.

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Love seizes us suddenly, witho...

Love seizes us suddenly, without giving warning, and our disposition or our weakness favors the surprise; one look, one glance, from the fair fixes and determines us.

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Make me chaste and To what exc...

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

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Men fall from great fortune be...

Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.

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There are certain people who s...

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

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A man has made great progress ...

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others.

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There is as much trickery requ...

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

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A heap of epithets is poor pra...

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them.

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Politeness makes one appear ou...

Politeness makes one appear outwardly as they should be within.

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You may drive a dog off the Ki...

You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.

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Lofty posts make great men gre...

Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

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There are three great events i...

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

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