Do no dishonour to the earth least you dishonour the spirit of man.
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Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.
To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
No important institution is ever merely what the law makes it. It accumulates about itself traditions, conventions, ways of behaviour, which are not less formidable in their influence.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
In the arena of human life the honours and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities.