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- We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.
- No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.
- Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools,…
- It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If…
- Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face,…
- There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and…
- When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
- Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
- Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
- It is not the most distinguished achievements that men's virtues or vices may be best discovered; but very often an action of small note. An…
- Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world…
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