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- Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to…
- Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.
- 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…
- Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men,…
- He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
- Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.
- Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
- To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.
- Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases…
- You must look into people, as well as at them.
- Style is the dress of thoughts, and let them be ever so just.
- Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.
- Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way in the world, without them it is like a great rough diamond, very well in a closet…
- Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if…
- Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
- If you will please people, you must please them in their own way.
- Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
- Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not…
- No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.
- Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had…
- Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to…
- People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.
- Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.
- To please people is a great step towards persuading them.
- If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster