| Quotes |
Topic |
| Adversity | Adversity reminds men of religion. |
| Adversity | We survive on adversity and perish in ease and comfort. |
| Advice | In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. |
| Boldness | In difficult and hopeless situations the boldest plans are the safest. |
| Circumstance | Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans. |
| Envy | Envy, like fire, soars upward. |
| Envy | No man likes to be surpassed by those of this own level. |
| Experience | Experience is the teacher of fools. |
| Gifts | A woman's mind is affected by the meanest gifts. |
| Guilt | Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. |
| Maturity | It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. |
| Necessity | Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. |
| Shame | As soon as she begins to be ashamed of what she ought not, she will not be ashamed of what she ought. |
| Shame | The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty. |
| Suffering | Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread. |
| Treachery | Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. |
| Wealth | It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous. |
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