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| "There are few finer excesses in the world than an excess of gratitude." | | Uncategorized | |
| 'There is a report that Piso is dead; it is a great loss; he was an honest man, who deserved to live longer; he was intelligent and agreeable, resolute and courageous, to be depended upon, generous and faithful.' Add: 'provided he is really dead'. | | Uncategorized | |
| A bigot is a person who, under an atheist king, would be an atheist | | Uncategorized | |
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| A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them | | Uncategorized | |
| A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others. | | Uncategorized | |
| A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought. | | Uncategorized | |
| A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably | | Mind; Writing | |
| A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value they put on themselves. | | Uncategorized | |
| A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were. | | Uncategorized | |
| A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. | | Uncategorized | |
| A sanctimonious man is one who under an atheist king would be atheist | | Uncategorized | |
| A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich | | Uncategorized | |
| A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. | | Slavery | |
| A strict observer is one who would be an atheist under an atheistic king. | | Uncategorized | |
| A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself | | Uncategorized | |
| All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. | | Uncategorized | |
| All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone. | | Uncategorized | |
| As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. | | Uncategorized | |
| As long as men are liable to die and are desirous to live, a physician will be made fun of, but he will be well paid | | Doctors; Life | |
