Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
All grand thoughts come from the heart.
The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Great thoughts always come from the heart.
The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
To achieve great things we must live as if we were never going to die.
You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
The idle always have a mind to do something.
The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.
To possess taste, one must have some soul.
Those who can bear all can dare all.
The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories