Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues...
Flattery is a kind of bad money to which our vanity gives us currency.
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application...
It is easier to know men in general than men in particular.
Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their...
There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
Many men are contemptuous of riches few can give them away.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they...
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be...
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated and we...
Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.
Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men and makes the biggest idiots clever.
We pardon to the extent that we love.
We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us than them that love us...
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in everybody.
