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To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly true, – that shepherds and ministers are both men; their natures and passions the same, the modes of them only different.

Keep carefully not of all scrapes and quarrels. They lower a character extremely; and are particularly dangerous in France, wherea man is dishonoured by not resenting an affront, and utterly ruined by resenting it.

A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share in another.

It is by vivacity and wit that man shines in company; but trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

Good breeding and good nature do incline us rather to help and raise people up to ourselves, than to mortify and depress them, and, in truth, our own private interest concurs in it, as it is making ourselves so many friends, instead of so many enemies.

In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

I really think next to the consciousness of doing a good action, that of doing a civil one is the most pleasing; and the epithet which I should covet the most next to that of Aristides, would be that of well-bred.

A man who tells nothing, or who tells all, will equally have nothing told him.

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

The company of women of fashion will improve your manners, though not your understanding; and that complaisance and politeness, which are so useful in men’s company, can only be acquired in women’s.

The world can doubtless never be well known by theory: practice is absolutely necessary; but surely it is of great use to a young man, before he sets out for that country, full of mazes, windings, and turnings, to have at least a general map of it, made by some experienced traveler.

Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always the destroyers of it too; by frequently changing the hands in which they think proper to lodge it.

Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informationsof others.

Lady – – is safely delivered of a son, to the great joy of that noble family. The expression, of a woman’s having brought her husband a son, seems to be a proper and cautious one; for it is never said, from whence.

Ugliness is a letter of credit for some special purposes.

There is a sort of veteran women of condition, who, having lived always in the grand mode, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him.

Every man is to be had one way or another and every woman almost anyway.

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

No woman ever yet either reasoned or acted long together consequentially; but some little thing, some love, some resentment, somepresent momentary interest, some supposed slight, or some humour, always breaks in upon, and oversets their most prudent resolutions and schemes.

The most ignorant are the boldest conjecturers.

Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature.

An honest man may really love a pretty girl, but only an idiot marries her merely because she is pretty.

Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

So much are our minds influenced by the accidents of our bodies, that every man is more the man of the day than a regular and consequential character.

It is to be presumed, that a man of common sense, who does not desire to please, desires nothing at all; since he must know that he cannot obtain anything without it.

Most arts require long study and application; but the most useful of all, that of pleasing, only the desire.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

Speak the language of the company you are in; speak it purely, and unlarded with any other.

The New Year is the season in which custom seems more particularly to authorize civil and harmless lies, under the name of compliments. People reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form and concern which they seldom feel.

The heart never grows better with age; I fear rather worse, always harder.

Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

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At any age we must cherish illusions, consolatory or merely pleasant; in youth, they are omnipresent; in old age we must search for them, or even invent them. But with all that, boredom is their natural and inevitable accompaniment.

I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

A gentleman has ease without familiarity, is respectful without meanness; genteel without affectation, insinuating without seeming art.

Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.

I do not think that a Physician should be admitted into the College till he could bring proofs of his having cured, in his own person, at least four incurable distempers.

A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.

Remember that whatever knowledge you do not solidly lay the foundation of before you are eighteen, you will never be master of while you breathe.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason.

A cheerful, easy, open countenance will make fools think you a good-natured man, and make designing men think you an undesigning one.

Choose the company of your superiors whenever you can have it.

One should always think of what one is about; when one is learning, one should not think of play; and when one is at play, one should not think of learning.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

Being pretty on the inside means you don’t hit your brother and you eat all your peas – that’s what my grandma taught me.

Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded, and blended; and vary as much, from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.

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