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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely...

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.