Lord of
Lord of
scandal thieves cases
In the case of scandal, as in that of robbery, the receiver is always thought as bad as the thief.
character hands greed
Keep your hands clean and pure from the infamous vice of corruption, a vice so infamous that it degrades even the other vices thatmay accompany it. Accept no present whatever; let your character in that respect be transparent and without the least speck, for as avarice is the vilest and dirtiest vice in private, corruption is so in public life.
ugly flattery enough
Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person.
giving advice wish
I wish... that you had as much pleasure in following my advice, as I have in giving it.
sight people favors
It is good breeding alone that can prepossess people in your favor at first sight, more time being necessary to discover greater talents.
taste pleasure enjoy
Enjoy pleasures, but let them be your own, and then you will taste them.
people reputation human-condition
Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.
hate people inferiority
People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.
different human-nature humans
Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.
half imitation
We are, in truth, more than half what we are by imitation.
knowledge giving credit
To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.
laughing use reason
Since attaining the full use of my reason no one has ever heard me laugh.
good-man return manners
Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.
eye doors ears
Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears.