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him under control, but proceed with discretion, 

 and do not wound him before others." 



" When discussion degenerates into dispute, be 

 silent; this is not to declare yourself beaten." 



" How much modesty adds to merit ! A man of 

 talent who conceals his knowledge is like a branch 

 bending under a weight of fruit." 



"Why try to be witty? I would rather be 

 thought stupid and modest than witty and pre- 

 tentious." 



" Men desire nothing so much as to make them- 

 selves envied." 



' ' Egotism is the most common and most hated 

 of all vices. Properly speaking, it is the only one 

 which should be hated." 



" The pleasures of self-love are the only ones 

 that can really be turned into ridicule. " 



"I do not know why these two expressions, 

 good sense and common sense, are confounded. 

 There is nothing less common than good sense." 



' ' The strain of suffering causes the mind to 

 decay." 



We will quote one of those misanthropic sallies 

 the rarity of which we are glad to remark : 



" It must be that all honest people are in the 

 galleys; only knaves are to be met with elsewhere." 



