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Self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind. It is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it. - [Self-love] Slavery is as ancient as war, and war as human nature. - [Servitude] Society is as ancient as the world. - [Society] Such is the destiny of great men that their superior genius always exposes them to be the butt of the envenomed darts of calumny and envy. - [Greatness] Suspicion invites treachery. - [Suspicion] Systems exercise the mind; but faith enlightens and guides it. - [Faith] The ancients recommended us to sacrifice to the Graces, but Milton sacrificed to the Devil. - of Milton's genius [Sacrifice] The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third. - [Government] The character of the common people changes in a single day. - [People] The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important objects of philosophy. - [Philosophy] The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister. - [Health] The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great. - [Pride] The modesty of certain ambitious persons consists in becoming great without making too much noise; it may be said that they advance in the world on tiptoe. - [Ambition] The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that everything must soon be reduced to extracts. - [Quotations] The multitude are ruled by prejudices. - [Prejudice] The passions are the winds which fill the sails of the vessel; they sink it at times, but without them it would be impossible to make way. Bile makes man passionate and sick; but without bile man could not live. - [Passion] The path of genius is not less obstructed with disappointment than that of ambition. - [Genius] The post is the grand connecting link of all transactions, of all negotiations. Those who are absent, by its means become present; it is the consolation of life. - [Letters] The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. - [Punishment] The richest endowments of the mind are temperance, prudence, and fortitude. Prudence is a universal virtue, which enters into the composition of all the rest; and where she is not, fortitude loses its name and nature. - [Prudence] The secret of making one's self tiresome is not to know when to stop. - [Bores] The sentiment of justice is so natural, so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to me independent of all law, all party, all religion. - [Justice] The sword is ever suspended. - [Retribution] The world embarrasses me, and I cannot dream That this watch exists and has no watchmaker. [Fr., Le monde m'embarrasse, et je ne puis pas songer Que cette horloge existe et n'a pas d'Horloger.] - [Creation] There are moral as well as physical assassinations. - [Assassination] Displaying page 4 of 8 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8
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