Enthusiasm is the most convincing orator it is like the functioning of an infallible law of nature. The simplest man, fired with enthusiasm, is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.
Enthusiasm is the most convincing orator it is like the functioning of an infallible law of nature. The simplest man, fired with enthusiasm, is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.
Some men are like ballads, that are in everyone's mouth a little while.
The reason so few men can carry on a sensible and agreeable conversation is that there is hardly one but thinks more of what he himself intends to say than of what is being said to him by others. Sometimes even the cleverest and politest man only feigns attention, while we can see by his eyes that his mind has gone back to polish up his own remarks. He does not consider that the worst way to win over others is to talk for his own pleasure, and that the best conversationalist is he who listens with care and answers to the point.
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
The love of Justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering Injustice.
A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others.
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness.
On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.
Man is never less sincere than when he asks, or offers, advice. When he asks it, he seems to defer to the wisdom of his friend, but really he seeks approval of his own opinion, and to make his friend responsible with him for his actions. When he offers advice, he seems to repay the confidence of his inquirer with disinterested zeal, while really seeking to bolster his own advantage or reputation.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.
Love of justice in the generality of men is only the fear of suffering from injustice.
No accident so grave but that the clever man can turn it to some good no luck so great but that the fool can twist it to his hurt.
When a man is in love, he doubts, very often, what he most firmly believes.
The love of justice in most men is only the fear of suffering injustice.
If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Men have made a virtue of moderation to limit the ambition of the great, and to console people of mediocrity for their want of fortune and of merit.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.
A clever man should organize his self-interests in the order of their worth. Greediness often defeats its own end, by making us scratch for every trifle when we should dig for gold alone.
There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.
The strongest symptom of wisdom in man is his being sensible of his own follies.
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