But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on. |
Cato said the best way to keep good acts in memory was to refresh them with new. |
Champagne for my sham friends; real pain for my real friends. |
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. |
Consistency is the foundation of virtue. |
Custom is the principal magistrate of man's life. |
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life |
Death comes as a heavy blow when, known too well to others, you die unknown to yourself. |
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. |
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. |
Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy. |
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid |
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. |
For knowledge itself is power. |
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. |