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A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.