Sometimes the remedy of an evil consists in forgetting it; and that time it is we commonly forget the remedy.

The most provident have commonly more to spare than men of great fortunes.

There is no course of life so weak, as that which is carried on by exact rule and discipline. The least debauch to such a man will ruin him.

Difficulty of achievement stupifies the sluggard, advises the prudent, terrifies the fearful, animates the courageous.

Honesty is silently commended even by the practice of the most wicked; for their deceit is under its colour.

A good cause makes a courageous heart. They that fear an overthrow, are half conquered.

The world can never be so bad, but a honest man will at one time or other be thought good for something.

A tree that is every year transplanted, will never

bear fruit; and a mind that is always hurried form its proper station, will scarce do good in any.

There is as much difference between wit and wisdom, as between the talent of a buffoon and a statesman; and yet, in the ordinary course of the world, one passess often for the other.

The pride of wit and knowledge is often mortified, by finding that they confer no security against the common errors which mislead the weakest and meanest of mankind.

We can no more correct all ill opinions in the world, than heal all the distempers that are in it.

There is as much wisdom in bearing with other people's defects, as in being sensible of their good qualities; and we should make the follies of others rather a warning and instruction to ourselves, than a subject of mirth and mockery of those that commit them.

When we commend good and noble actions, we make them in some measure, our own.

When a man owns himself to be in an error, he

does but tell you in other words, that he is wiser

than he was.

There is no contending with necessity; and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to do what we must.

Fortune is never more deceitful, than when she seems most to favour. He that is rich to-day may be poor to-morrow.

As dreams are the fancies of those that sleep. so fancies are but the dreams of men awake.

Cato observed, that wise men learn more by fools, than fools by wise men; for they see their weakness to avoid it; these consider not their virtues to imitate them.

It is the intention, morally speaking, that makes the action good or bad; and even brutes themselves will put a difference between harms of illwill and a mischance.

We read of an astrologer, that foretold his own

end to the very day and hour: He lived perfectly in health till the last minute of his time, and then hanged himself for the honour of his prediction.

Money makes not so many true friends, as it makes enemies.

He that contends with natural aversions, doth the same thing as if he undertook to cure incurable diseases.

It is not so painful to a honest man to want money, as it is to owe it.

It is better to suffer without a cause, than that there shall be a cause for our suffering.

The less wit a man has, the less he knows that he wants it.

To tell our own secrets is generally folly, but that folly is without guilt. To communicate those with which we are entrusted, is always treachery, and treachery for the most part combined with folly.

He that hinders not a mischief, when it is in his power, is guilty of it.

There is no rule that is not liable to some exception or other, saving that very rule itself.

He that has fewest faults, has constructively none at all, because it is a common case: but no man has more faults, than he that pretends to have

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We may hate men's vices, without any ill-will to their persons; but we cannot help despising those that have no kind of virtue to recommend them.

Though an action be ever so glorious in itself, it ought not to pass for great, if it be not the effect of wisdom and good design.

When two persons compliment one another with the choice of any thing, each of them generally gets that which he likes least.

It was a maxim with Cesar, that we ought to reckon we have done nothing, so long as any thing remains to be done.

Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men ; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few religious persons. wnose devotion is of long continuance.