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A man may govern himself
well who cannot govern others so
A man should diffuse
joy, but, as much as he can, smother grief
A well-bred man is a
compound man
All over-nice solicitude
about riches smells of avarice
Always complaining is
the way never to be lamented
Appetite comes to me
in eating
Better to be alone than
in foolish and troublesome company
By suspecting them,
have given them a title to do ill
Change only gives form
to injustice and tyranny
Civil innocence is measured
according to times and places
Conclude the depth of
my sense by its obscurity
Concluding no beauty
can be greater than what they see
Confession enervates
reproach and disarms slander
Counterfeit condolings
of pretenders
Crates did worse, who
threw himself into the liberty of poverty
Desire of travel
Enough to do to comfort
myself, without having to console others
Friend, it is not now
time to play with your nails
Gain to change an ill
condition for one that is uncertain
Giving is an ambitious
and authoritative quality
Good does not necessarily
succeed evil; another evil may succeed
Greedy humour of new
and unknown things
He must fool it a little
who would not be deemed wholly a fool
I always find superfluity
superfluous
I am disgusted with
the world I frequent
I am hard to be got
out, but being once upon the road
I am very willing to
quit the government of my house
I content myself with
enjoying the world without bustle
I enter into confidence
with dying
I grudge nothing but
care and trouble
I hate poverty equally
with pain
I scorn to mend myself
by halves
I write my book for
few men and for few years
Justice als takes cognisance
of those who glean after the reaper
Known evil was ever
more supportable than one that was, new
Laws (of Plato on travel),
which forbids it after threescore.
Liberty and laziness,
the qualities most predominant in me
Liberty of poverty
Liberty to lean, but
not to lay our whole weight upon others
Little affairs most
disturb us
Men as often commend
as undervalue me beyond reason
Methinks I promise it,
if I but say it
My mind is easily composed
at distance
Neither be a burden
to myself nor to any other
No use to this age,
I throw myself back upon that other
Nothing falls where
all falls
Nothing presses so hard
upon a state as innovation
Obstinate in growing
worse
Occupy our thoughts
about the general, and about universal cause
One may regret better
times, but cannot fly from the present
Opposition and contradiction
entertain and nourish them