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The more a man writes, the more he can write.
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.
Love and joy are twins or born of each other.
Literature, like nobility, runs in the blood.
Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.
Words are the only things that last for ever.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
Power is pleasure; and pleasure sweetens pain.
The art of pleasing consists in being pleased.
Love may turn to indifference with possession.
A wise traveler never despises his own country.
The incentive to ambition is the love of power.
Wit is, in fact, the eloquence of indifference.
Humanity is to be met with in a den of robbers.
Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.
The corpse of friendship is not worth embalming.
Those who can command themselves command others.
No truly great person ever thought themselves so.
Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.
The garb of religion is the best cloak for power.
Man is a poetical animal, and delights in fiction.
Many a man would have turned rogue if he knew how.
Those only deserve a monument who do not need one.
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.
We talk little when we do not talk about ourselves.
The youth is better than the old age of friendship.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
In what we really understand, we reason but little.
Vice is man's nature: virtue is a habit--or a mask.
Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.
Political truth is libel; religious truth, blasphemy.
Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.
If a person has no delicacy, he has you in his power.
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
The only impeccable writers are those who never wrote.
Just as much as we see in others we have in ourselves.
Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
We grow tired of ourselves, much more of other people.
We are all of us, more or less, the slaves of opinion.
Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.
To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.
But of all footmen the lowest class is literary footmen.
Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.
The most violent friendships soonest wear themselves out.