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... judgment than to rally inoffensively , and to make this innocent war agreeable and pleasant . He that is truly polite , knows how to contradict with respect , and to please without adulation ; and is equally remote from an insipid ...
... judgment than to rally inoffensively , and to make this innocent war agreeable and pleasant . He that is truly polite , knows how to contradict with respect , and to please without adulation ; and is equally remote from an insipid ...
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... judgment seldom go together : for talking and thinking are quite two different faculties ; and here is commonly more depth , where there is less noise . Some people write , and others talk themselves out of their reputation . Buffoonery ...
... judgment seldom go together : for talking and thinking are quite two different faculties ; and here is commonly more depth , where there is less noise . Some people write , and others talk themselves out of their reputation . Buffoonery ...
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... judgment Complaisance obliges while it reprehends : with- out this the best advice seems but a reproach . Praise is disagreeable , and conversation trouble- some . Too great a distrust of one's self produces a base fear , which ...
... judgment Complaisance obliges while it reprehends : with- out this the best advice seems but a reproach . Praise is disagreeable , and conversation trouble- some . Too great a distrust of one's self produces a base fear , which ...
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... judgment which the world makes of us , is of no manner of use to us ; it adds nothing to our souls or bodies , nor lessens any of our mi- series . Let us constantly follow reason , says Mon- taigne ; and let the public approbation ...
... judgment which the world makes of us , is of no manner of use to us ; it adds nothing to our souls or bodies , nor lessens any of our mi- series . Let us constantly follow reason , says Mon- taigne ; and let the public approbation ...
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... judgment . Flatter not , nor be thou flattered . Follow the dictates of your reason , and you are safe . Honours , monuments , and all the works of vanity and ambition , are demolished and destroy- ed by time ; but the reputation of ...
... judgment . Flatter not , nor be thou flattered . Follow the dictates of your reason , and you are safe . Honours , monuments , and all the works of vanity and ambition , are demolished and destroy- ed by time ; but the reputation of ...
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Page 115 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Page 7 - THE Liberty of a people consists in being governed by Laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of Government. The Liberty of a private man in being Master of his own Time and Actions, as far as may consist with the Laws of God and of his Country. Of this latter only we are here to discourse, and to enquire what estate of Life does best seat us in the possession of it.
Page 107 - Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose ; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity. Sloth...
Page 194 - What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have dis-interred, and have brought to light.
Page 108 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise ; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self ; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions...
Page 206 - The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy ; but then let a man take heed the revenge be such as there is no law to punish, else a man's enemy is still beforehand, and it is two for one.
Page 113 - There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and, therefore, men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not to keep their suspicions in smother.
Page 106 - Methinks I hear some of you say, Must a Man afford himself no Leisure? I will tell thee, my Friend, what Poor Richard says, Employ thy Time well if thou meanest to gain Leisure; and, since thou art not sure of a Minute, throw not away an Hour.
Page 16 - A GOOD conscience is to the soul what health is to the body : it preserves a constant ease and serenity within us, and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can possibly befal us.
Page 23 - In the prosperity of a man enemies will be grieved: but in his adversity even a friend will depart.