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When one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.
Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.
Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.
Firmness of purpose is one of the best instruments of success.
Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.
A certain degree of fear produces the same effects as rashness.
Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.
Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.
Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.
If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.
Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.
Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.
Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world.
Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.
An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions.
Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.
Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.
Women especially as to be talked to as below men, and above children.
Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.
Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.
There will never be a better time to start quitting smoking than today
Absolute power can only be supported by error, ignorance and prejudice.
Ceremony is necessary in Courts, as the outwork and defense of manners.
The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.
Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.
Seek always for the best words and the happiest expression you can find.
Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.
A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.
Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
There never were, since the creation of the world, two cases exactly parallel.
A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.
The permanency of most friendships depends upon the continuity of good fortune.
If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?