Statesman Quotes

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
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