Stanislaw Leszczynski Quotes

#1. A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm's length, as you value the integrity of your bones.

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#2. Esteem has more engaging charms than friendship, or even love. It captivates hearts better, and never makes ings.

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#3. How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

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#4. When the truth offends no one it should come from our lips as naturally as the air we breathe.

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#5. We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.

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#6. To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.

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#7. The earliest desire of succeeding is almost always a prognostic of success.

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#8. He who fears death dies every time he thinks of it.

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#9. I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

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#10. The Word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages.

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#11. Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes us as a judge.

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#12. Nothing but religion is capable of changing pains into pleasures.

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#13. The instability of our tastes is the occasion of the irregularity of our lives.

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#14. Reason shows us our duty; he who can make us love our duty is more powerful than reason itself.

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#15. We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.

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#16. Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

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#17. Those who ought to be secure from calumny are generally those who avoid it least.

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#18. Gaiety is the soul's health; sadness is its poison.

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#19. The strong desire for success is the best indication that you can achieve success.

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#20. None are rash when they are not seen by anybody.

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#21. To be vain of one's rank or place is to show that one is below it.

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#22. Is it not astonishing that the love of repose keeps us in continual agitation?

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#23. Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.

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#24. It is having in some measure a sort of wit to know how to use the wit of others.

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#25. In all sorts of government man is made to believe himself free, and to be in chains.

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#26. There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!

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#27. It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.

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#28. Religion has nothing more to fear than not being sufficiently understood.

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#29. Where religion speaks, reason has only a right to hear.

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#30. Genius speaks only to genius.

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#31. Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.

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#32. Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

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#33. I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.

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#34. There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

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