The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
When a true genius appears in the world you may know his by this sing, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Promise and pie - crust are made to be broken.
When I am reading a book, Whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.
There's none so blind as they that won't see.
Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
All government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying...that he is wiser today than yesterday.
Usually speaking, the worst - bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.
The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are ofter mean and little.
Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
May you live all the days of your life.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Don't set your wit against a child.
Proper words in proper places, make the true definition of a style.
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.
Books are the children of the brain.
Dignity, high station, or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.
When men grow virtuous in their old age, they only make a sacrifice to God of the devil's leavings.
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
When the world has once begun to use us ill, and afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore.
Every dog must have his day.
Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.
Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.
A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.
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