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I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.

Out of mind as soon as out of sight.

I hardly know so true a mark of a little mind as the servile imitation of others.

Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

Envy is but the smoke of low estate,
Ascending still against the fortunate.

Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.

True joy is only hope put out of fear.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.

Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself
if I may be allowed the expression
than to itself.

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

We should do by our cunning as we do by our courage
always have it ready to defend ourselves, never to offend others.

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well:
What they that choose their God do, who can tell?

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.