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Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
Faction seldom leaves a man honest, however it might find him.
He who aspires to be a serious wine drinker must drink claret.
We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.
Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself.
Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.
Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.
There is a frightful interval between the seed and the timber.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits
No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.
Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.
Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.
Men seldom give pleasure when they are not pleased themselves.
He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little.
We often need reminding even if we do not often need educating.
Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.
The man who feels himself ignorant should, at least, be modest.
No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.
What is said upon a subject is gathered from an hundred people.
He is no wise man who will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
The majority of a society is the true definition of the public.
New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.
Perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle.
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
From ignorance our comfort flows, the only wretched are the wise
We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.
Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance
Read the book you do honestly feel a wish and curiosity to read.
Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
Courtesy and good-humour are often found with little real worth.
Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet.
Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.
I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.
Treating your adversary with respect is striking soft in battle.
Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.
Moderation is commonly firm, and firmness is commonly successful.
Nothing is difficult, when gain and honour unite their influence.
Shakespeare never had more than 6 lines together without a fault.
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it.
Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.
Confidence is a plant of slow growth; especially in an aged bosom
Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.