Book: Maxims and moral reflections. Page 1

People stubbornly do not agree with the sound judgment not for lack of insight, due to an excess of pride: they see that the first rows in the right case disassembled, and the latter they do not want to take.

The appeal in the absence of beauty is a special kind of symmetry, the laws of which are unknown to us; this is the hidden connection between all the facial features, on the one hand, and the facial features, colors and overall appearance of the person on the other.

Most often oppress others, those people who believe that they are not can be a burden.

The sound of the voice, the eyes and the whole shape of the speaker were not less eloquence than in his choice of words.

Every man, whoever he was, trying to fill in a form and wear a mask to be accepted for who he wants to seem; therefore, we can say that society consists only of masks.

Good taste says not so much about the mind as about the clarity of judgments.

Pride often kindle in us the envy, and the same pride often helps us to cope with it.

We find several solutions to the same question not so much because our minds are very prolific, but because he's not very insightful and, instead of stopping at the best solution, presents us indiscriminately all the possibilities at once.

Appreciation most people generated a hidden desire to achieve even greater benefits.

Only then can we dare to Express unbelief in the power and influence of the heavenly bodies, when it comes to matters of the immaterial.

We do not surrender entirely to one Vice, often only because we have several of them.
(To completely surrender one blemish usually prevents us only that we have several of them.)

Because we are so fickle in friendship that it is difficult to know the properties of the human soul and it is easy to know the properties of his mind.

If there are people who never thought that was funny, it means only that no one tried to find them funny features.

Who too hard in a small, one usually become incapable of great.