3.2 · 25 votes · 154 reads
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Virtues
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.4.7 · 16 votes · 149 reads
Society
Everyone complains of the badness of his memory, but nobody of his judgment.4.4 · 40 votes · 2 reads
Various
Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.3.5 · 46 votes · 55 reads
Virtues
Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others.3.9 · 30 votes · 33 reads
Government and Politics
If I advance, follow me! If I retreat, kill me! If I die, avenge me!4.2 · 9 votes · 104 reads
Thought and Reason
If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.4.5 · 57 votes · 198 reads
Feelings
If we resist our passions, it is more through their weakness than from our strength.3.8 · 58 votes · 2 reads
Virtues
In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.3.7 · 49 votes · 55 reads
Nature
It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.4.0 · 19 votes · 198 reads
Feelings
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.3.4 · 37 votes · 71 reads
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