The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.
JOSEPH ADDISONIf men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the other. If they receive reproaches which are not due to them, they likewise receive praises which they do not deserve.
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There are infinite reveries, numberless extravagances, and a perpetual train of vanities which pass through both.
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There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
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Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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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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I Have often thought if the minds of men were laid open, we should see but little difference between that of the wise man and that of the fool.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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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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Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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