32 quotes
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“There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.”
"He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he who loses his courage loses all."
on Courage
"Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art."
on Wisdom
"Among the attributes of God although they are all equal mercy shines with even more brilliancy than justice."
on Faith
"Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."
"Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art."
"One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are."
on Fear
"Valour lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."
"The pen is the tongue of the mind."
on Writing
"It seems to me a hard case to make slaves of those whom God and nature have made free."
on Freedom
"The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the sum of his own works."
"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool and he must be no simpleton that plays that part."
on Art
"Every man is the son of his own works."
on Work
"Man appoints and God disappoints."
"Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art"
"A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend before he knows him."
on Truth
"The proof of the pudding is in the eating."
"A Man Without Honoris Worse than Dead."
"Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water."~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ~"
"The guts carry the feet not the feet the guts."
on Philosophy
"...in the worst of circumstances, the hypocrite who pretends to be good does less harm than the public sinner."