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Before dinner men meet with great inequality of understanding.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

Life is but short; no time can be afforded but for the indulgence of real sorry, or contests upon questions seriously momentous. Let us not throw away any of our days upon useless resentment, or contend who shall hold out longest in stubborn malignity. It is best not to be angry; and best, in the next place, to be quickly reconciled.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.