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May Quotes by William Hazlitt
- Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured smile can work…
- It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
- Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them…
- We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions and daily intercourse…
- No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as…
- Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.
- The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.
- Love may turn to indifference with possession.
- When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one…
- Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman passes the bounds…
- However we may flatter ourselves to the contrary, our friends think no higher of us than the world do. They see us through the jaundiced…
- The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.
- We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in…
- There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him…
- Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
- An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
- Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.
- If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we…
- Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having…
- Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.
- True friendship is self-love at second hand; where, as in a flattering mirror we may see our virtues magnified and our errors softened, and where…
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
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