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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
We don't have enough time to premeditate all our actions.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Excessive distrust is not less hurtful than its opposite. Most men become useless to him who is unwilling to risk being deceived.
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Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Our opinion of others is not so variable as our opinion of ourselves.
Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
When you are still plowing fields ahead, make a point of being open-minded, and there will be no murmuring among others. After your life is over, its blessings will flow for a long time, giving contentment to people in their thoughts.
Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
Pull one hair and the whole body is affected.
To be good, we must do good and by doing good we take a sure means of being good, as the use and exercise of the muscles increase their power.
Few men are more to be shunned than those who have time, but know not how to improve it, and so spend it in wasting the time of their neighbors, talking forever though they have nothing to say.
The Devil interferes with hurried work. (Meaning: If you hurry your work it will turn out wrong.)
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain.
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.