“He that lives upon hope will die fasting.”
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.
