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An honest heart is not to be trusted with itself in bad company.
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
All angry persons are to be treated, by the prudent, as children.
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.
Things we wish to be true are apt to gain too ready credit with us.
A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.
The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.
People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.
It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
The wife of a self-admirer must expect a very cold and negligent husband.
Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.
A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.
A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.
Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.
Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.
She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.
All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.
The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.
For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones.
There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.