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Thought and Reason
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.4.7 · 55 votes · 113 reads
Government and Politics
Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.4.3 · 63 votes · 137 reads
Time
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.3.2 · 43 votes · 153 reads
Virtues
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.3.5 · 24 votes · 191 reads
Society
If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.4.1 · 40 votes · 96 reads
Virtues
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.3.0 · 63 votes · 116 reads
Art and Culture
Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.3.0 · 55 votes · 34 reads
Government and Politics
The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.3.0 · 33 votes · 156 reads
Feelings
The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.4.4 · 19 votes · 8 reads
Art and Culture
The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.4.1 · 14 votes · 25 reads
Art and Culture
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.3.1 · 12 votes · 56 reads
Art and Culture
The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.4.6 · 25 votes · 108 reads
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