Maxioms by Lord Chesterfield
Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely read more
Wear your learning, like a watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull
it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, read more
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Letter to his son, October 9, 1746.
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
