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Ingratitude is abhorred by God and man.
— Roger L'Estrange
Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.
— Roger L'Estrange
Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.
— Roger L'Estrange
Live and let live is the rule of common justice.
— Roger L'Estrange
He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.
— Roger L'Estrange
He that serves God for money will serve the Devil for better wages.
— Roger L'Estrange
A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal
— Roger L'Estrange
Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them.
— Roger L'Estrange
I never sold out before because nobody ever asked me. In all it took around twenty minutes.
— Roger L. Simon
Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe, and make themselves the common enemies of mankind.
— Roger L'Estrange
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
— Roger L'Estrange
Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.
— Roger L'Estrange
There are braying men in the world, as well as braying asses; for what is loud and senseless talking any other than away of braying?
— Roger L'Estrange
Figure-flingers and star-gazers pretend to foretell the fortunes of kingdoms, and have no foresight in what concerns themselves.
— Roger L'Estrange
Some natures are so sour and ungrateful that they are never to be obliged.
— Roger L'Estrange
The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.
— Roger L'Estrange
The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.
— Roger L'Estrange
Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.
— Roger L'Estrange
So long as we stand in need of a benefit, there is nothing dearer to us; nor anything cheaper when we have received it.
— Roger L'Estrange
There is no creature so contemptible but by resolution may gain his point.
— Roger L'Estrange
The very soul of the slothful does effectually but lie drowsing in his body, and the whole man is totally given up to his senses.
— Roger L'Estrange
The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.
— Roger L'Estrange
Wickedness may prosper for a while.
— Roger L'Estrange
The fairest blossoms of pleasantry thrive best where the sun is not strong enough to scorch, nor the soil rank enough to corrupt.
— Roger L'Estrange
Resolve to see the world on the sunny side and you have almost won the battle at the outset.
— Roger L'Estrange
Men talk as if they believed in God, but they live as if they thought there was none; their vows and promises are no more than words, of course.
— Roger L'Estrange
Much tongue and much judgment seldom go together.
— Roger L'Estrange
We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.
— Roger L'Estrange
Nothing is so fierce but love will soften; nothing so sharp-sighted in other matters but it will throw a mist before its eyes.
— Roger L'Estrange
Men are not to be judged by their looks, habits, and appearances; but by the character of their lives and conversations, and by their works.
— Roger L'Estrange
A body may well lay too little as too much stress upon a dream; but the less he heed them the better.
— Roger L'Estrange
All duties are matters of conscience, with this restriction that a superior obligation suspends the force of an inferior one.
— Roger L'Estrange
He that would live clear of envy must lay his finger on his mouth, and keep his hand out of the ink-pot.
— Roger L'Estrange
It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts disordered by a tedious visit.
— Roger L'Estrange
Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.
— Roger L'Estrange
By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.
— Roger L'Estrange
The common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.
— Roger L'Estrange
Imperfections would not be half so much taken notice of, if vanity did not make proclamation of them.
— Roger L'Estrange
There is no opposing brutal force to the stratagems of human reason.
— Roger L'Estrange
Men indulge those opinions and practices that favor their pretensions.
— Roger L'Estrange
A plodding diligence brings us sooner to our journey's end than a fluttering way of advancing by starts.
— Roger L'Estrange
Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils.
— Roger L'Estrange
