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S. Austin Allibone, comp. Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay. 1880.

François, duc de La Rochefoucauld

Absence destroys trifling intimacies, but it invigorates strong ones.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it consists in a symmetry of which we know not the rules, and a secret conformity of the features to each other, and to the air and complexion of the person.

Grace is to the body what good sense is to the mind.

The humours of the body have a stated and a regular course, which impels and imperceptibly guides our will. They co-operate with each other, and exercise successively a secret empire within us; so that they have a considerable part in all our actions, without our being able to know it. Hence the necessity of attention to our bodily health.

Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady.

There are more faults in the humour than in the mind.

Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.

We seldom find people ungrateful as long as we are in a condition to render them services.

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual movement: so soon as it ceases to hope and fear, it ceases to exist.

Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire of appearing so.

Narrowness of mind is often the cause of obstinacy: we do not easily believe beyond what we see.

Philosophy can hold an easy triumph over the misfortunes which are past and to come; but those which are present triumph over her. By philosophy we are taught to dismiss our regrets for the past and our apprehensions of future evils; but the immediate sense of suffering she cannot teach us to subdue.