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judging age merit
Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age
fashion ifs
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
two people three
I recommend to you to take care of the minutes; for hours will take care of themselves. I am very sure, that many people lose two or three hours every day, by not taking care of the minutes.
hate political politics
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.
mean vanity principles
To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.
money gold silver
Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.
humility bait modesty
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.
fall numbers people
Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.
knowledge men shining
Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowledge and shining parts.
wise time ignorance
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
life standards wells
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
respect mean numbers
In the mass of mankind, I fear, there is too great a majority of fools and knaves; who, singly from their number, must to a certain degree be respected, though they are by no means respectable.
men people looks
You must look into people, as well as at them.
dream strong kings
As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and perhaps, had they thesame education, they might prove like other men. But, flattered from their cradles, their hearts are corrupted, and their heads are turned, so that they seem to be a species by themselves.... Flattery cannot be too strong for them; drunk with it from their infancy, like old drinkers, they require dreams.