Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (Письма к сыну – полный вариант)

Consider things in the worst light, to show your skill

Contempt

Contempt

Contempt

Content yourself with mediocrity in nothing

Conversationstock being a joint and common property

Conversation will help you almost as much as books

Converse with his inferiors without insolence

Dance to those who pipe

Darkness visible

Decides peremptorily upon every subject

Deep learning is generally tainted with pedantry

Deepest learning, without goodbreeding, is unwelcome

Defended by arms, adorned by manners, and improved by laws

Deserve a little, and you shall have but a little

Desire to please, and that is the main point

Desirous of praise from the praiseworthy

Desirous to make you their friend

Desirous of pleasing

Despairs of ever being able to pay

Dexterity enough to conceal a truth without telling a lie

Dictate to them while you seem to be directed by them

Difference in everything between system and practice

Difficulties seem to them, impossibilities

Dignity to be kept up in pleasures, as well as in business

Disagreeable to seem reserved, and very dangerous not to be so

Disagreeable things may be done so agreeably as almost to oblige

Disputes with heat

Dissimulation is only to hide our own cards

Distinction between simulation and dissimulation

Distinguish between the useful and the curious

Do as you would be done by

Do not become a virtuoso of small wares

Do what you are about

Do what you will but do something all day long

Do as you would be done by

Do not mistake the tinsel of Tasso for the gold of Virgil

Does not give it you, but he inflicts it upon you

Doing, 'de bonne grace', what you could not help doing

Doing what may deserve to be written

Doing nothing, and might just as well be asleep

Doing anything that will deserve to be written

Done under concern and embarrassment, must be ill done

Dress like the reasonable people of your own age

Dress well, and not too well

Dressed as the generality of people of fashion are

Ears to hear, but not sense enough to judge

Easy without negligence

Easy without too much familiarity

Economist of your time

Either do not think, or do not love to think

Elegance in one language will reproduce itself in all

Employ your whole time, which few people do

Endeavor to hear, and know all opinions

Endeavors to please and oblige our fellowcreatures

Enemies as if they may one day become one's friends

Enjoy all those advantages

Equally forbid insolent contempt, or low envy and jealousy

ERE TITTERING YOUTH SHALL SHOVE YOU FROM THE STAGE

Establishing a character of integrity and good manners

Even where you are sure, seem rather doubtful

Every numerous assembly is MOB

Every virtue, has its kindred vice or weakness

Every man knows that he understands religion and politics

Every numerous assembly is a mob

Every man pretends to common sense

EVERY DAY IS STILL BUT AS THE FIRST

Everybody is good for something

Everything has a better and a worse side

Exalt the gentle in woman and man__above the merely genteel

Expresses himself with more fire than elegance

Extremely weary of this silly world

Eyes and the ears are the only roads to the heart

Eyes and ears open and mouth mostly shut

Feed him, and feed upon him at the same time

Few things which people in general know less, than how to love

Few people know how to love, or how to hate

Few dare dissent from an established opinion

Fiddlefaddle stories, that carry no information along with them

Fit to live__or not live at all

Flattering people behind their backs

Flattery of women

Flattery

Flexibility of manners is necessary in the course of the world

Fools, who can never be undeceived

Fools never perceive where they are illtimed

Forge accusations against themselves

Forgive, but not approve, the bad.

Fortune stoops to the forward and the bold

Frank without indiscretion

Frank, but without indiscretion

Frank, open, and ingenuous exterior, with a prudent interior

Frequently make friends of enemies, and enemies of friends

Friendship upon very slight acquaintance

Frivolous, idle people, whose time hangs upon their own hands

Frivolous curiosity about trifles

Frivolous and superficial pertness

Fullbottomed wigs were contrived for his humpback

Gain the heart, or you gain nothing

Gain the affections as well as the esteem

Gainer by your misfortune

General conclusions from certain particular principles

Generosity often runs into profusion

Genteel without affectation

Gentlemen, who take such a fancy to you at first sight

Gentleness of manners, with firmness of mind

Geography and history are very imperfect separately

German, who has taken into his head that he understands French

Go to the bottom of things

Good manners

Good reasons alleged are seldom the true ones

Good manners are the settled medium of social life

Good company

Goodbreeding

Graces: Without us, all labor is vain

Gratitude not being universal, nor even common

Grave without the affectation of wisdom

Great learning; which, if not accompanied with sound judgment

Great numbers of people met together, animate each other

Greatest fools are the greatest liars

Grow wiser when it is too late

Guard against those who make the most court to you