between companions and friends
     Make himself whatever he pleases, except a good poet
     Make yourself necessary
     Make every man I met with like me, and every woman love me
     Man is dishonored by not resenting an affront
     Man or woman cannot resist an engaging exterior
     Man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry
     Man who is only good on holydays is good for very little
     Mangles what he means to carve
     Manner is full as important as the matter
     Manner of doing things is often more important
     Manners must adorn knowledge
     Many things which seem extremely probable are not true
     Many are very willing, and very few able
     Mastery of one’s temper
     May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer! 
     May you rather die before you cease to be fit to live
     May not forget with ease what you have with difficulty learned
     Mazarin and Lewis the Fourteenth riveted the shackles
     Meditation and reflection
     Mere reason and good sense is never to be talked to a mob
     Merit and goodbreeding will make their way everywhere
     Method
     Mistimes or misplaces everything
     Mitigating, engaging words do by no means weaken your argument
     mob:  Understanding they have collectively none
     Moderation with your enemies
     Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise
     Money, the cause of much mischief
     More people have ears to be tickled, than understandings to judge
     More one sees, the less one either wonders or admires
     More you know, the modester you should be
     More one works, the more willing one is to work
     Mortifying inferiority in knowledge, rank, fortune
     Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends
     Most long talkers single out some one unfortunate man in company
     Most ignorant are, as usual, the boldest conjecturers
     Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears
     Much sooner forgive an injustice than an insult
     My own health varies, as usual, but never deviates into good
     Mystical nonsense
     Name that we leave behind at one place often gets before us
     National honor and interest have been sacrificed to private
     Necessity of scrupulously preserving the appearances
     Neglect them in little things, they will leave you in great
     Negligence of it implies an indifference about pleasing
     Neither know nor care, (when I die) for I am very weary
     Neither abilities or words enough to call a coach
     Neither retail nor receive scandal willingly
     Never would know anything that he had not a mind to know
     Never read history without having maps
     Never affect the character in which you have a mind to shine
     Never implicitly adopt