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If you like not hanging, drown yourself; Take some course for your reputation.
Cheerful looks make every dish a feast, and it is that which crowns a welcome.
The talent of making friends is not equal to the talent of doing without them.
Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?
I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
You have been trapped in the inescapable net of ruin by your own want of sense.
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.
Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.
Partake of love as a temperate man partakes of wine; do not become intoxicated.
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
The more my work improves or broadens or widens, the more surely I tame myself.
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.
Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
It is a word that's quickly spoken, which being unrestrained, a heart is broken
How many women does one need to sing the scale of love all the way up and down?
I pray, what flowers are these? The pansy this, O, that's for lover's thoughts.
As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.
We are merely the stars tennis-balls, struck and bandied which way please them.
Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.
If you betray me, can I take a better revenge than to love the person you hate?
Oh, how sweet it is to pity the fate of an enemy who can no longer threaten us!
Thus must we toil in other men's extremes, That know not how to remedy our own.
Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.
That blood which thou hast spill'd, should join you closely in an eternal bond.
Alas, 'tis force alone that can compel to virtuous actions a degenerate people.
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.
For the lips of Zeus do not know how to lie, but bring to fulfilment every word.
Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.
The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book." "Naturally," said John.
The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones.
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined.
Virtue is not malicious; wrong done her Is righted even when men grant they err.
Vivutur ingenio, that damn'd motto there Seduced me first to me a wicked player.
Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.
Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law.
Men create real miracles when they use their God-given courage and intelligence.
Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degre s. Crime, like virtue, has its degrees.
Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all
True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.
A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.
Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.
False as the adulterate promises of favorites in power when poor men court them.
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.
Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.