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He Quotes by Lord Chesterfield
- The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave…
- A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but…
- Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.
- He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
- The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs…
- I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a…
- Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
More He Quotes
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- No one loves the man whom he fears. — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle