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Those great actions whose luster dazzles us are represented by politicians as the effects of deep design; whereas they are commonly the effects of caprice and passion. - [Glory] Those only are despicable who fear to be despised. - [Contempt] Those who are overreached by our cunning are far from appearing to us as ridiculous as we appear to ourselves when the cunning of others has overreached us. - [Cunning] Those who are themselves incapable of great crimes are ever backward to suspect others. - [Crime] Those who bestow too much application on trifling things become generally incapable of great ones. - [Trifles] Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism. - [Heroism] Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face. - [Age] To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities. - [Opportunity] To be deceived by our enemies and betrayed by our friends is not to be borne; yet are we often content to be served so by ourselves. - [Credulity] To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them. - [Appreciation] Truth is the foundation and the reason of the perfection of beauty, for of whatever stature a thing may be, it cannot be beautiful-and perfect, unless it be truly what it should be, and possess truly all that it should have. - [Beauty] Virtue would not go far, if vanity did not keep it company. - [Vanity] We acknowledge that we should not talk of our wives; but we seem not to know that we should talk still less of ourselves. - [Tattling] We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary. - [Bores] We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged than those who have obliged us. - [Obligation] We are never so ridiculous from the habits we have as from those we affect to have. - [Affectation] We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment. - [Praise] We are often more agreeable through our faults than through our good qualities. - [Faults] We are so accustomed to masquerade ourselves before others that we end by deceiving ourselves. - [Deceit] We are so much accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that at length we disguise ourselves to ourselves. - [Dissimulation] We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others. - [Character] We become so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that at last we are disguised to ourselves. - [Disguise] We can be more clever than one, but not more clever than all. - [Cleverness] We easily forget those faults which are known only to ourselves. - [Faults] We frequently pass from love to ambition, but one seldom returns from ambition to love. - [Ambition] Displaying page 11 of 16 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 [11] 12 13 14 15 16
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