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A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty. - [Hope] A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. - [Belief] All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin. Remove the vices; and the ills follow. You must only take care to remove all the vices. If you remove part, you may render the matter worse. By banishing vicious luxury, without curing sloth and an indifference to others, you only diminish industry in the state, and add nothing to men's charity or their generosity. - [Ills] All power, even the most despotic, rests ultimately on opinion. - [Opinion] All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability. - [Skepticism] Almost every one has a predominant inclination, to which his other desires and affections submit, and which governs him, though perhaps with some intervals, though the whole course of his life. - [Inclination] Among the arts of conversation no one pleases more than mutual deference or civility, which leads us to resign our own inclinations to those of our companions, and to curb and conceal that presumption and arrogance so natural to the human mind. - [Conversation] An established government has an infinite advantage, by that very circumstance of its being established--the bulk of mankind being governed by authority, not reason, and never attributing authority to anything that has not the recommendation of antiquity. - [Government] Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity. - [Reason] Art may make a suit of clothes; but nature must produce a man. - [Man] Avarice, the spur of industry. - [Avarice] Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man. - [Philosophy] Curiosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person. - [Curiosity] Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection. - [Eloquence] Every movement of the theater by a skilful poet is communicated, as it were, by magic, to the spectators; who weep, tremble, resent, rejoice, and are inflamed with all the variety of passions which actuate the several personages of the drama. - [Drama] Everything is sold to skill and labor; and where nature furnishes the materials, they are still rude and unfinished, till industry, ever active and intelligent, refines them from their brute state, and fits them for human use and convenience. - [Industry] Friendship is a calm and sedate affection, conducted by reason and cemented by habit; springing from long acquaintance and mutual obligations, without jealousies or fears, and without those feverish fits of heat and cold, which cause such an agreeable torment in the amorous passion. - [Friendship] He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances. - [Temper] If refined sense, and exalted sense, be not so useful as common sense, their rarity, their novelty, and the nobleness of their objects, make some compensation, and render them the admiration of mankind. - [Refinement] In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. - [Apathy] It is a great mortification to the vanity of man that his utmost art and industry can never equal the meanest of Nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Art is only the underworkman, and is employed to give a few strokes of embellishment to those pieces which come from the hand of the master. - [Art] It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. - [Censure] It is on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as to the most free and most popular. - [Opinion] It is with books as with women, where a certain plainness of manner and of dress is more engaging than that glare of paint and airs and apparel which may dazzle the eye, but reaches not the affections. - [Books] Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence. - [Jealousy] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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