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Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Distrust those who love you extremely upon a slight acquaintance, and without any visible reason.
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it.
Give Dayrolles a chair.
Fear manifested invites danger.
Real friendship is a slow grower.
Dispatch is the soul of business.
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
Ceremonies are the outworks of manners.
History is but a confused heap of facts.
Sincerity is the most compendious wisdom.
Take the tone of the company you are in...
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide.
Honest error is to be pitied not ridiculed.
To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
You must look into people, as well as at them.
Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.
Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.
Women, then, are only children of a larger growth
Few people do business well, who do nothing else.
People hate who makes you feel one's inferiority.
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.
Indifference is commonly the mother of discretion.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
You must be respectable, if you will be respected.
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
When a man is once in fashion, all he does is right.
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.
We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence.
Health ... is the first and greatest of all blessings.
I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.
Not to care for philosophy is to be a true philospher.
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
To please people is a great step towards persuading them.
Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.
Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.
Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.
We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.
Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.
People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.
A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.
