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

Man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry

Man who is only good on holydays is good for very little

Mangles what he means to carve

Manner is full as important as the matter

Manner of doing things is often more important

Manners must adorn knowledge

Many things which seem extremely probable are not true

Many are very willing, and very few able

Mastery of one's temper

May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer!

May you rather die before you cease to be fit to live

May not forget with ease what you have with difficulty learned

Mazarin and Lewis the Fourteenth riveted the shackles

Meditation and reflection

Mere reason and good sense is never to be talked to a mob

Merit and goodbreeding will make their way everywhere

Method

Mistimes or misplaces everything

Mitigating, engaging words do by no means weaken your argument

MOB: Understanding they have collectively none

Moderation with your enemies

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise

Money, the cause of much mischief

More people have ears to be tickled, than understandings to judge

More one sees, the less one either wonders or admires

More you know, the modester you should be

More one works, the more willing one is to work

Mortifying inferiority in knowledge, rank, fortune

Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends

Most long talkers single out some one unfortunate man in company

Most ignorant are, as usual, the boldest conjecturers

Most people have ears, but few have judgment; tickle those ears

Much sooner forgive an injustice than an insult

My own health varies, as usual, but never deviates into good

Mystical nonsense

Name that we leave behind at one place often gets before us

National honor and interest have been sacrificed to private

Necessity of scrupulously preserving the appearances

Neglect them in little things, they will leave you in great

Negligence of it implies an indifference about pleasing

Neither know nor care, (when I die) for I am very weary

Neither abilities or words enough to call a coach

Neither retail nor receive scandal willingly

Never would know anything that he had not a mind to know

Never read history without having maps

Never affect the character in which you have a mind to shine

Never implicitly adopt a character upon common fame

Never seek for wit; if it presents itself, well and good

Never to speak of yourself at all

Never slattern away one minute in idleness

Never quit a subject till you are thoroughly master of it

Never maintain an argument with heat and clamor

Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with

Never saw a froward child mended by whipping

Never to trust implicitly to the informations of others

Nipped in the bud

No great regard for human testimony

No man is distrait with the man he fears, or the woman he loves

No one feels pleasure, who does not at the same time give it

Not tumble, but slide gently to the bottom of the hill of life

Not to communicate, prematurely, one's hopes or one's fears

Not only pure, but, like Caesar's wife, unsuspected

Not make their want still worse by grieving and regretting them

Not making use of any one capital letter

Not to admire anything too much

Not one minute of the day in which you do nothing at all

Notes by which dances are now pricked down as well as tunes

Nothing in courts is exactly as it appears to be

Nothing much worth either desiring or fearing

Nothing so precious as time, and so irrecoverable when lost

Observe, without being thought an observer

Often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment

Often necessary, not to manifest all one feels

Often necessary to seem ignorant of what one knows

Oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings

Old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not

One must often yield, in order to prevail

Only doing one thing at a time

Only because she will not, and not because she cannot

Only solid and lasting peace, between a man and his wife

Our understandings are generally the DUPES of our hearts

Our frivolous dissertations upon the weather, or upon whist

Out of livery; which makes them both impertinent and useless

Outward air of modesty to all he does

Overvalue what we do not know

Oysters, are only in season in the R months

Passes for a wit, though he hath certainly no uncommon share

Patience is the only way not to make bad worse

Patient toleration of certain airs of superiority

Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company

Pay them with compliments, but not with confidence

People never desire all till they have gotten a great deal

People lose a great deal of time by reading

People will repay, and with interest too, inattention

People angling for praise

People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority

Perfection of everything that is worth doing at all

Perseverance has surprising effects

Person to you whom I am very indifferent about, I mean myself

Pettish, pouting conduct is a great deal too young

Petty jury

Plain notions of right and wrong

Planted while young, that degree of knowledge now my refuge