The peu govems better than the sword
996 — A defenceless enemy is every where a sacred being.
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997.~*It reqnires many efforts to be wise, it requires ooly an instant to ceaee being so.
996. — HappinesB, like the bntterfly, Aies away the moment you oelieve y on baye seized ît.
999. — ^The hour of misfortone is the season of virtue. (104)
1000. — A fine old âge is nsnally the reward of a yirtnonB life.
1001. — Sham.e and hatred are the reward of treason.
1002. — There is no virtue withont philosophy, no philosophy withont yirtue.
1003. — Under a bad govemment, the masterpieces of art only serve to omament the sarcophagns of a nation.
1004.— Appeanmce is a cnrtain behind which tmth escapes the sight of the Yolgar.
1006. — ^The rioh man, withont éducation and feeling, is only mud sprinkled with gold.
1006. — A pédant is a fool sprinkled with érudition.
1007. — The hypocrite sprinkles himself with virtues.
1008. — Compeers sprinkle each other over with praises.
1009. — It is better not to know at aU than to know imperfectly.
1010. — ^Never do anything which your enemy should not know. (106)
1011. — Ridicule is the only thins which inspires fear in thoee who bave become insensible to shame.
1012. — Our thoughts are often like those brilliant soap bnbbles which fluctnate and lose themselyes in the empty space.
1018.— Leisure well employed makes us enjoy life.
1014. — Scepticism is a fortress raised by pride on the Irontiers of science and ignorance.
1016. — A sceptre of iron is brittle.
54* THE TKEASUIŒ OF THOUGIIÏS;
1016. — Science gives us in a short time tlie expérience of âges.
1017. — The habit of ridiculing dries up the heart.
1018. — We ought to weîgh scnipolously the words which we address to the unfortunate.
1019. — The most incarable of misfortunes is to believe one's self unfortonate.
1020. — The future is in the bosom of God.
1021. — He who inquires înto your secret wants to betray it. (106)
1022. — To recommend secrecy is to invite indiscrétion.
1023. — Calumny, like the spider, lays its nets in the shade.
1024. — Stars are imperishable ûoy^tBj sown by the hand of Gtoà, in the field of immensity.
1025. — A particular sensé is wanted to hear the silence of sentiment.
1026. — An instant of the heart's enjoyment is better than hours of pleasure of the sensés.
1027. — Science is foolish if common sensé do not rule it.
1028. — A man of wit wants only a wife of good sensé.
1029. — The heart which bas the intimate feeling of its own innocence is slow in belieYÎng the wickedness of others.
1030. — God has placed labour as the sentinel of virtue.
1031.— Feeling is living. (107)
1032. — He who feels strongly is sparing of bis words.
10d3.-7Neyer separate what nature has onited.
1034. — Well united hearts are not separated but tom asunder.
1035. — The face is always serene when the soûl is in peace.
1036. — True joy is more grave than noisy.
1037.-:- A great passion is serious.
1038. — The anger of an honest man is serious.
1039. — He who does not know how to make use of fortune when it cornes, ought not to complain when it leayes him.
1040. — Man can neither bear complète liberty nor complète slavery.
1041. — The brow of tnith is at once gracious and severe.
1042. — The man who is the most indulgent to himself, is often the most severe towards others. (108)
1043. — The most brilliant âges wiil become extiuguished in the torrent of etemity.
1044. — Modesty is becomîng to beauty.
1045. — Simplicity is one of the characteristics of genius.
1046. — He whom ambition has urged out of his sphère of life finds himself ill at ease when fortune obliges him to résume it.
1047. — Civility does not give virtues, but it renders them agreeable.
1048. — To remove Grod from the universe would be worse than to remove the sim from nature.
1049. — Truth is the sun of intellect.
1050. — Grold is the sun of £ugland.
1061. — Grold is a sun which neither smoke nor fog darkens.
1052. — The eyes of beauty are the sun of love.
1063. — A gloomy day harmonizes with grief (109)
1064. — The passions are the most skilful sophists.
1056. — Nature gives to the haughty a stiff gait, a raised head, a fierce eye ; it writes upon lus brow, ** fool !"
1056. — A leamed fool is more foolish than an ignorant fool.
1057. — Love gîves wit to the fool, and màkes a wîbo man foolish.
1058. — He who blows the fire rune the risk of blowing the sparks into his own face.
1059. — ^A feeling man BufferB at the idea of a soffering being.
1060. — In order to reooncile ouraelves to what we soffer, we hâve only to think of what we do not soffer.
1061. — Dîstnist that yirtne which nerer smiles.
1062. — A heart fiill of vîrtue is superior to a head fbll of science.
1063.— Any pasûon may be snrmoimted by time and
will. . (UO)
1064. — Pasdons shonld be watehed at tbeir birth.
1005. — ^Role yonr own tongne if yon want otiierB to be silent.
1066. — ^Wise men are silent when the mad are noîsy.
1067. — Talents procnre îndependence.
1068. — The selfish cannot escape retaliation.
1069. — It îs never too late to leam. •
1070. — Oor ideas take the tint of our homoars ; thus health has a great influence oyer our happîness.
1071. — We must take men as they are, time as it cornes, and things for what they are worth.
1072. — He mnst bave a very bad opinion of himself, who does not wish to appear as he is.
1073. — Act, speak, thînk, write, as if you had a thousand witnesses.
1074. — ^He who does not lose time has much of it at lis disposai. (111)
1075.— We must know how to suffer and waît for better times.
1076. — Time has no wîngs for the captive.
1077. — We do not often lay snares without falling into them ourselves.
1078. — Hypocrisy opens and stretches out its arms whîist it shuts its heart.
1079. — False honour is liable to be tamished.
1080. — He who promises more than he can perform obtains less than he solicita.
1081. — Man adhères to the objects of hîs admiration, to his pleasures, to his Systems, as the dog sticks to the bone that he gnaws.
1082. — The safest way of resisting temptation is not to expose ourselves to it.
1083. — Clemency never tamishés glory.
1084. — No ground is more slippery than that of falsehood: as soon as we hâve made a single step we are dragged along from one fall to another.
1085. — The whole earth is the mausoleum of illustrions raen. (112)
1086. — Many heads are required for délibération, one only for action.
1087. — There is no head barder than an empty head.
1088. — Cold heads rule bot heads.
1089. — Pleasure is a flower which grows on the stem of virtue.
1090. — A modest mati fears to humble the pride of others, a timid man fears lest others should humble his pride.
1091. — Timidity is composed of the désire of pleasing and the fear of not succeeding to please.
1092 .^To be vain of our rank is to announce that we are beneath it.
1093. — Women are combatants always occupied with their arms, — the toilet.
1094. — Penny-a-lînerg judging a great wnter, are pigmies measnring the pyramids.
1095. — Toleratîon is the mother of peace. (113)
1096. — The most modest tomb îs the finest.
1097. — If time did not destroy tombs there would be no room for the plongh.
1098. — Keputatîon is the most magnîficent tomb.
1099. — Books are the tombs m which anthors enclose their eouls.
1100. — Interest is the grave of friendshîp.
1101. — When beauty leaves the path of duty it is like a falling star which never shines again in heaven.
1102. — It is better to allow a foolish action to pass, than to endeavour to excuse ît.
1103. — Fiat contradiction is always uncîvîl.
1104. — Great talkers are liko empty casks, which resound more than fuU ones.
1105. — Tlie cask of the danaîds is an emblem of our desires.
1106. — Daintîness is a sign of delicacy of taste; the daînty sip, epicores chew, the greedy swallow. (114)
1107. — Cnstom îs to man what the shell is to the tortoise.
1108. — ^Uttle minds are crooked in business.
1109. — Constant pleasure is no pleasore.
1110. — The best reasons hâve no effect on the minds of cowards.
1111. — Happiness is the fable of every one, and the history of no -one.
1 112. — Hope always deceîves us, but we always belîeve it.
1113. — Ruîns interest us and excite our feelings beoause we find in them traces of lîfe.
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1 114. — We often efiace that which is imprinted on the mind, never that which is engraved on the heart.
1115. — ^A flash of wît may inflict a mortal blow.
1116. — ^Any transaction with crime is criminal. (1]5)
1117. — It is difficult to transplant the flowersofwit without destroying them.
1 118. — We rest oorselyes by changing our occupation.
1119. — Power is on the side of the treasore ; the key of the treasure is the key of the heart.
1120. — For want of finding tmths, authors assert paradoxes.
1121.— Renown more frequently lends its trumpet to fortune than to merit.
1122.— The laws are silent at the noise of arms and the trumpet of war.
1123. — We are wrong when we want to be too much in the right.
1124. — He whose only occupation is to seek after pleasure soon finds disgust and weariness.
1125. — ^Wit loses ail its charms when in company with wickedness.
1126. — Those who, being able to protect an innocent man, forsake him, are as guilty as those who destroy him. (116)
1127. — Riches kill more men than poyerty.
1128. — Natural sciences bave destroyed superstition and credulity.
1129.— The rose, the peach, and the rainbow, are type of uniyersal beauty.
1130. — A chîld who tyrannises oyer his dog will tyrannise oyer his family or his country.
1131. — There is in human lîfe something yague which makes ît appear like a dream.
60 TUE TREASURE OF THOrOUTS;
1132. — To conquer one's self in victory is to conquer twice.
1 133. — Passions can be conquered only by flyîng from theîr object.
1134. — Seek after those whose conversation is worth a good book, and those books the reading of whîch is as good as a conversation with philosophers.
1135. — The aim of ail coteries is to elevate mediocrity.
1136. — ^Wit adds value to good sensé. (117)
1137. — What is too much praised often becomes depreciated.
1138. — A truly honest man dœs not praise bis own honesty.
1139 — Variety is one of the domineering passions — the primum mobile of the public.
1 140. — Great thoughts corne from the heart.
1141. — Vénération is a tribute that even the wîcked pay to virtue.
1142.— Présent tirae is the lightnîng which shines between the past and the future.
1143. — Truth acts on the mind like a stroke of lightning.
1144. — He who speaks the truth may be killed, but truth itself cannot, nor those who hâve heard it.
1145. — Selfîshness places glasses of varions colours, before our eyes.
1146. — Study is the life of the leamed.
1147. — No one wishes for old âge, and y et every one wishes to live a long time. (1 18)
1148. — The rose grows old the instant it opens.
1 149. — Nothing becomes old more quickly than news.
1150.— The voice of a good conscience is more agreeable than the hundred voices of renown.
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1 151. — ^He deserves his fall who does not moderate his flight.
1 162. — There are thîeves for every description of property, as there are worms and caterpillars for qycij kind of plant
1153. — The eyes of her husband are the only mîrror in whîch a woman ought to contemplate her beauty with pride.
1154. — He who bas many vices has many masters.
1 155. — The eye of a reader is a more severe judge than the ear of a listener.
1156. — Love every thing that is old ; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine, and your good old wife.
1157. — Commerce is the first agent of peacefnl civilisation : and whilst the civilisation which anses from war, traces its path thronghout plunder, pillage, and death, spreading ideas solely by the glare of the conflagrations which it kind^es in order to lUominate its march ; the civilisation which is effected by means of exchange, pursues its peaceful course, and distributes around abnndance, wealth, and ail the comforts of life. (^19)
1158. — The above thoughts and maxims are heads of chapters offered to the reader, to be filled up by his méditations.
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