St. Evremond Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

St. Evremond


Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than the small-pox.	1
He is not always at ease who laughs.	2
History tells us of illustrious villains, but there never was an illustrious miser.	3
Let pleasure be ever so innocent, the excess is always criminal.	4
Liberality is the best way to gain affection; for we are assured of their friendship to whom we are obliged.	5
Politeness is a mixture of discretion, civility, complaisance and circumspection spread over all we do and say.	6
Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue. We have seen a thousand people esteemed, either for the merit they had not yet attained or for that they no longer possessed.	7
Some men will believe nothing but what they can comprehend; and there are but few things that such are able to comprehend.	8
The censure of those that are opposed to us is the nicest commendation that can be given us.	9
There is a heroic innocence, as well as a heroic courage.	10
Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few religious persons whose devotion is of long continuance.	11
We rarely meet with persons that have true judgment; which, to many, renders literature a very tiresome knowledge. Good judges are as rare as good authors.	12
We want fewer things to live in poverty with satisfaction, than to live magnificently with riches.	13