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The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.
Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.
When real nobleness accompanies that imaginary one of birth, the imaginary seems to mix with real, and becomes real too.
Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.
How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!
You deny that man is really so prejudiced as I suppose him; talk to him then of some foreign country, ask him what religion he is of.
Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.
Wit catches of wit, as fire of fire.
Might not most men be as well named boys grown old.
Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.
It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and if so many men escape it, it is in a great degree from the same reason that country-men escape the smallpox, because they meet no one to give it to them.
How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!
If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.
It by no means follows, that because two men utter the same words, they have precisely the same idea which they mean to express: language is inadequate to the variety of ideas which are conceived by different minds, and which, could they be expressed, would produce a new variety of characteristic differences between man and man.
Genius always looks forward, and not only sees what is, but what necessarily will be.
We are not slow at discovering the selfishness of others; for this plain reason
because it clashes with our own.
It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.
It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.
We are oftener deceived by being told some truth than no truth.
The greatest slave in a kingdom is generally the king of it.
If the human mind naturally produces noisome weeds, it also produces flowers and fruit; and ... the best method to mend the soil in general, is for each of us to cultivate his own particular spot.
Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?
There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.
Fire and people do in this agree,They both good servants, both ill masters be.
Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.
No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.
