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Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body. - [Wisdom] Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity. - [Wit] Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions. - [Women] Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love. - [Coquette] Youth changes its tastes by the warmth of its blood; age retains its tastes by habit. - [Age] Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason. - [Youth] The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits. - Maxim (298) [Gratitude] We always love those who admire us, and we do not always love those whom we admire. - Maxim (305) [Admiration] One may outwit another, but not all the others. [Fr., On peut etre plus fin qu'un autre, mais non pas plus fin que tous les autres.] - Maxim (394) [Deceit] We give advice, but we do not inspire conduct. - Maxim (403) [Advice] In the adversity of our best friends we often find something which does not displease us. [Fr., Dans l'adversite de nos meilleurs amis nous trouvons toujours quelque chose ne nous deplaist pas.] - Maxim (99) [Adversity] It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. [Fr., Il est plus aise d'etre sage pour les autres, que pour soi-meme.] - Maximes [Wisdom] It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects. [Fr., Il n'appartient qu'aux grands hommes d'avoir de grands defauts.] - Maximes [Greatness] The love of justice is, in most men, nothing more than the fear of suffering injustice. [Fr., L'amour de la justice n'est, en la plupart des hommes, que la crainte de souffrir l'injustice. - Maximes [Justice] We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we suppose ourselves to be. [Fr., On n'est jamais si heureux, ni si malheureux, qu'on se l'imagine.] - Maximes [Happiness] The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those which we affect to have. [Fr., On n'est jamais si ridicule par les qualites que l'on a que par celles que l'on affecte d'avoir.] - Maximes (134) [Character] We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.] - Maximes (137) [Vanity] However resplendent an action may be, it should not be accounted great unless it is the result of a great design. [Fr., Quelque eclatente que soit une action, elle ne doit pas passer pour grande, lorqeu'elle n'est pas l'effet d'un grand essein.] - Maximes (160) [Action] It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. [Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.] - Maximes (164) [Worth] The world rewards the appearance of merit oftener than merit itself. [Fr., Le monde recompense plus souvent les apparences de merite que le merite meme.] - Maximes (166) [Merit] Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road. [Fr., L' esperance, toute trompeuse qu'elle est, sert au moins a nous mener a la fin de la vie par un chemin agreable.] - Maximes (168) [Hope] He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks. [Fr., Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit.] - Maximes (209) [Folly] Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue. [Fr., L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend a la vertu.] - Maximes (218) [Hypocrisy] To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. [Fr., C'est une grande habilete que de savoir cacher son habilete.] - Maximes (245) [Ability] Gravity is a mystery of the body invented to conceal the defects of the mind. [Fr., La gravite est un mystere du corps invente pour cacher les defauts de l'esprit.] - Maximes (257) [Mind] Displaying page 14 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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