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Nature in her whole drama never drew such a part; she has sometimes made a fool, but a coxcomb is always of a man’s own making.

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Encourage innocent amusement.
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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.
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Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes.
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What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
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There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
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There are many more shining qualities in the mind of man, but there is none so useful as discretion.
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I am wonderfully pleased when I meet with any passage in an old Greek or Latin author, that is not blown upon, and which I have never met with in any quotation.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
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Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.
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A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart.
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There is noting truly valuable which can be purchased without pains and labor. The gods have set a price upon every real and noble pleasure.
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Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
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Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
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This not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.
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it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.
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