“Love your fellow creature, though vicious. Hate vice in the friend you love the most.”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
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“He who knows the world will not be too bashful. He who knows himself will not be impudent.”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
“To offer advice to an angry man, is like blowing against a tempest.”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
“Be sure of the fact before you lose time in searching for a cause.”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
“Value truth, however you come by it. Who would not pick up a jewel that lay on a dunghill?”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
“Insult not another for his want of a talent you possess: He may have others which you want.”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
Variant in other editions: Do not think of knocking out another person's brains, because he differs in opinion from you; it will be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from what you thought ten years ago.
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
“Wit without humanity degenerates into bitterness. Learning without prudence into pedantry.”
The Dignity of Human Nature (1754)
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Political Disquisitions
ch III: A Militia, with Navy
Political Disquisitions (1774)
