A new principle is an inexhaustible source of new views |
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts. |
Emotions have taught mankind to reason. |
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers. |
Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice. |
Give help rather than advice. |
Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy |
Great success is commoner than great abilities. |
Great thoughts come from the heart. |
Habit is everything, even in love. |
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society. |
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something. |
Lazy people are always wanting to do something |
Magnanimity has no need to prove the prudence of its motives |
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offence that one appreciates them. |