Attend to the objects of your expenses, but not to the sums
     Attention to the inside of books
     Attention and civility please all
     Attention
     Author is obscure and difficult in his own language
     Authority
     Avoid cacophony, and, what is very near as bad, monotony
     Avoid singularity
     Awkward address, ungraceful attitudes and actions
     Be neither transported nor depressed by the accidents of life
     Be silent till you can be soft
     Being in the power of every man to hurt him
     Being intelligible is now no longer the fashion
     Better not to seem to understand, than to reply
     Better refuse a favor gracefully, than to grant it clumsily
     Blindness of the understanding is as much to be pitied
     Bold, but with great seeming modesty
     Boroughjobber
     Business must be well, not affectedly dressed
     Business now is to shine, not to weigh
     Business by no means forbids pleasures
     but of this every man will believe as he thinks proper
     Can hardly be said to see what they see
     Cannot understand them, or will not desire to understand them
     Cardinal Mazarin
     Cardinal Richelieu
     Cardinal de Retz
     Cardinal Virtues, by first degrading them into weaknesses
     Cautious how we draw inferences
     Cease to love when you cease to be agreeable
     Chameleon, be able to take every different hue
     Characters, that never existed, are insipidly displayed
     Cheerful in the countenance, but without laughing
     Chitchat, useful to keep off improper and too serious subjects
     Choose your pleasures for yourself
     Civility, which is a disposition to accommodate and oblige others
     Clamorers triumph
     Close, without being costive
     Command of our temper, and of our countenance
     Commanding with dignity, you must serve up to it with diligence
     Committing acts of hostility upon the Graces
     Common sense (which, in truth, very uncommon)
     Commonplace observations
     Company is, in truth, a constant state of negotiation
     Complaisance
     Complaisance to every or anybody’s opinion
     Complaisance due to the custom of the place
     Complaisant indulgence for people’s weaknesses
     Conceal all your learning carefully
     Concealed what learning I had
     Conjectures pass upon us for truths
     Conjectures supply the defect of unattainable knowledge
     Connections
     Connive at knaves, and tolerate fools
     Consciousness of merit makes a man of sense more modest
     Consciousness and an honest pride of doing well
     Consider things in the worst light, to show your skill
     Contempt
     Contempt
     Contempt
     Content yourself with