When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
From Samuel Johnson
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.
The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.
A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Words are but the signs of ideas.
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