He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONWhen you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
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Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.
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Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
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If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
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Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
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We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
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The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
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The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society’s most basic values.
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That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
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Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
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A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
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A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.
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It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors; for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
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True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
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Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
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Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.
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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.
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The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
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Butler compared the tongues of these eternal talkers to race-horses, which go the faster the less weight they carry.
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He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
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The poorest man would not part with health for money, but the richest would gladly part with all their money for health.
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