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"There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."
Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Saturninus said, "Comrades, you have lost a good captain to make him an ill general.""
Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity."
Book iii. Chap. ix. Of Vanity.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Habit is a second nature."
Book iii. Chap. x.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"We seek and offer ourselves to be gulled."
Book iii. Chap. xi. Of Cripples.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself."
Book iii. Chap. xi. Of Cripples.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Men are most apt to believe what they least understand."
Book iii. Chap. xi. Of Cripples.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together."
Book iii. Chap. xii. Of Physiognomy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Amongst so many borrowed things, I am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service."
Book iii. Chap. xii. Of Physiognomy.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have."
Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"There is more ado to interpret interpretations than to interpret the things, and more books upon books than upon all other subjects; we do nothing but comment upon one another."
Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For truth itself has not the privilege to be spoken at all times and in all sorts."
Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods."
Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we."
Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I have ever loved to repose myself, whether sitting or lying, with my heels as high or higher than my head."
Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I, who have so much and so universally adored this ariston metron, "excellent mediocrity," of ancient times, and who have concluded the most moderate measure the most perfect, shall I pretend to an unreasonable and prodigious old age?"
Book iii. Chap. xiii. Of Experience.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain