It’s easier to say a new word than to reconcile words already spoken.

Our mind is more perceptive than consistent, and encompasses more than the power to comprehend.

If a thought cannot be expressed in simple words, then it is insignificant and must be discarded.

Express your false thought clearly, and it will refute itself.

Constant stinginess in praise is a sure sign of a superficial mind.

Ardent ambition expels all joy from our lives - it wants to rule sovereignly.

The best support in unhappiness is not reason, but courage.

Neither wisdom nor freedom are compatible with weakness.

The mind is not given the opportunity to correct that which, by its very nature, is imperfect.

You cannot be fair without being human.

It is one thing to soften the rules of virtue in the name of her triumph; it is another to equalize her with vice in order to nullify.

We do not like being pityed for our mistakes.

Young people do not know what beauty is: they only know passion.

As soon as we feel that a person has nothing to respect us for, we begin to almost hate him.

Pleasure teaches the sovereign to feel just like a man.

Anyone who demands a fee for his honesty most often sells his honor.

The fool is always convinced that no clever man will lead him by his tricks.

Several boobies, sitting at the table, declare: "Where there is no us, there is no good society." And everyone believes them.

Clever people would be completely alone if fools did not rank themselves among them.

It is not easy to value a person the way he wants.

Let a person who does not have great talents be comforted by the same thought as a person who does not have large ranks: you can be higher than both of them with your heart.

Our judgment of others is not as volatile as that of ourselves. The one who believes that the poor are always higher than the rich is mistaken.

People only willingly provide services until they feel that they can do it.

He who is not capable of great accomplishments despises great designs.

A great man takes on great things, because he realizes their greatness, a fool - because he does not understand how difficult they are.

Strength easily prevails over cunning.

Excessive discretion is no less harmful than its opposite: there is little use from people to someone who is forever afraid, no matter how they fool him.

Bad people are always shocked by the discovery that the respectable are capable of wit.

It seldom happens to express a sound thought to someone who always tries to be original.

Someone else's wit quickly gets bored.

Bad advice is far more powerful than our own whims.

Reason deceives us more often than our nature.

Generosity is not required to report prudence on the reasons for its actions.

The conscience of the dying slanders the whole life they have lived.

The thought of death is treacherous: captured by it, we forget to live.

Sometimes you think: life is so short that it’s not worth the slightest displeasure. But when the annoying guest arrives, I am not able to patiently get bored for half an hour.

If even forethought cannot make our life happy, then what can we say about carelessness.

Who knows, maybe it is precisely the passions that the mind owes its most brilliant conquests.

If people appreciated fame less, they would not have had enough intelligence or valor. deserve it.

People usually torture their neighbors on the pretext that they wish them well.

To punish unnecessarily means to challenge the mercy of the Lord.

No one is compassionate to a fool on the sole ground that he is stupid, and this is perhaps reasonable; but how absurd to think that he himself is guilty of his own stupidity!

The most disgusting, but also the most common, is the ancient ingenuity of the children of the world as parents. Sometimes our weaknesses bind us to each other no less than the highest virtues.

Hatred overpowers friendship, but gives in to love.

He who is born to subjugate will be submissive on the throne.

Those who are deprived of power are looking for someone to obey them, because they need protection.

He who is capable of enduring everything is given to him to dare to do everything.

It is better to swallow other insults silently, so as not to cover oneself with dishonor.

We want to believe that satiety speaks of shortcomings, of the imperfection of what we are fed up with, while in reality it is only a consequence of the exhaustion of our senses, evidence of our weakness.

A man dreams of peace, but he finds joy only in activity, only he cherishes it.

An insignificant atom, called a man, is capable at one glance to embrace the universe in all its endless changes.

Who showers ridicule on the propensity for serious things, he is seriously committed to trifles.

Original talent - original taste. Not always one author belittles another only out of envy.

It is unfair when Deprevo is placed next to Rasin: after all, the first succeeded in comedy - a low genre, the second - in tragedy, high.

In reasoning, examples should be few; We must not be distracted by side issues, but immediately state the final conclusion.

The mind of most scientists is similar to a man gluttonous, but with poor digestion.

Surface knowledge is always fruitless, and sometimes harmful: it forces you to waste your energy on nothing and only amuses the pride of fools.

Philosophers blacken human nature; we imagine that we ourselves are so different from the whole human race that, slandering him, we ourselves remain untainted. A man is now out of favor with the intellectual.

Great people, having taught the faint-hearted to think, instructed them on the path of reflection.

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Submission and dependence is her supreme law.

Citizens flatter the sovereigns much more eagerly than they listen to this flattery. The thirst for something is always sharper than the pleasure already obtained.

A rare person is able, without flinching, to endure the truth or tell it in the eye.

Although they reproach us for vanity, all the same, sometimes we just need to hear how great our virtues are.

People rarely come to terms with humiliation: they simply forget about it.

The more modest a person’s position in the world, the more unpunished his actions and unnoticed - merit.

Inevitability eases even those troubles in front of which the mind is powerless.

Despair completes not only our failures, but also our weakness.

Criticizing the author is easy, difficult to evaluate.

The works may be liked even if something in them is wrong, because there is no correctness in our reasoning either, as well as in the author’s reasoning. Our taste is easier to satisfy than the mind.

It’s easier to take over the whole earth than to appropriate the smallest talent.

All leaders are eloquent, but they would hardly have succeeded in poetry, for such high art is incompatible with the bustle that is necessary in politics.

You cannot cheat people for a long time where there is a business of profit. You can deceive the whole people, but you have to be honest with each person individually. Lies are weak in nature - therefore, the speakers are sincere, at least in detail. Therefore, truth itself is higher and more eloquent than any art.

Unfortunately, a talented person always wants to belittle other talents. Therefore, do not judge poetry by the statements of a physicist.

It is necessary to praise a person in life, if he deserves it. It is not dangerous to praise from the heart, it is dangerous to denigrate undeservedly.

Envy does not know how to lurk, it attacks the most undeniable virtues. She is blind, irrepressible, insane, rude.

There are no contradictions in nature.

It is assumed that one who serves virtue, obeying reason, is able to exchange it for a useful vice. Yes, it would be so if vice could be useful - in the eyes of a person who knows how to reason.

If others do not suffer from the selfishness of a person, it is useful and natural. We are susceptible to friendship, justice, humanity, compassion and reason. Is this not a virtue?

Laws, providing peace to peoples, diminish their freedom.

No one is ambitious at the behest of the mind and defiled by stupidity.

Our actions are less kind and less vicious than our desires.

People reason: “Why know where the truth is, when do you know where is the pleasure?”

The strength or weakness of our faith depends more on courage than on reason. The one who laughs at signs is not smarter than the one who believes them.

What fear and hope do not convince a person!

No unbeliever will die peacefully if he thinks: “I’ve been mistaken a thousand times, so I could have been mistaken about religion. And now I have neither the strength nor the time to reflect on this - I am dying ... "

Faith is the joy of the destitute and the scourge of the lucky.

Life is short, but it can neither discourage us from its joys nor console us in its sorrows.

The world is full of cold minds, who, not being able to come up with something themselves, are comforted by rejecting other people's thoughts.

Because of weakness or fear of incurring contempt, people hide their most cherished, ineradicable and sometimes virtuous inclinations.

The art of liking is the ability to cheat.

We are too inattentive or too busy with ourselves to study each other.