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A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones. - [Pedantry] Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be. - [Affectation] Almost always the most indigent are the most generous. - [Generosity] Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge. - [Conscience] Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison. - [Gaiety] Genius speaks only to genius. - [Genius] Good-humor is the health of the soul, sadness its poison. - [Good Humor] How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old! - [Age] I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things. - [Misfortune] I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness. - [Firmness] Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation? - [Uneasiness] It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of. - [Suspicion] None are rash when they are not seen by anybody. - [Rashness] Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures. - [Religion] Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness. - [Politeness] The earliest desire of succeeding is almost always a prognostic of success. - [Success] The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives. - [Taste] The prejudices of youth pass away with it. Those of old age last only because there is no other age to be hoped for. - [Prejudice] The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages. - [Religion] There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. - [Good Breeding] There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation! - [Reputation] Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least. - [Calumny] To be vain of one's rank or place is to disclose that one is below it. - [Rank] To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth. - [Life] We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one. - [Fortune] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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