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- Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that…
- He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.
- A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he…
- A clever man should handle his interests so that each will fall in suitable order of their value.
- It is easier to understand mankind in general than any individual man.
- A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.
- A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
- We should not judge a man's merits by his great qualities, but by the use he makes of them.
- A man, in order to establish himself in the world, does everything he can to appear established there.
- To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
- There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.
- He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it…
- Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
- In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in…
- He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.
- Hope is the last thing that dies in man.
- The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the…
- The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.
- The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
- When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
- Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
- If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
- Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
- When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
- Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
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