There are few persons of greater worth than their reputation; but how many are there whose worth is far short of their reputation!
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Reputation
The prejudices of youth pass away with it. Those of old age last only because there is no other age to be hoped for.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Prejudice
The word of God proves the truth of religion; the corruption of man, its necessity; government, its advantages.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Religion
To make good use of life, one should have in youth the experience of advanced years, and in old age the vigor of youth.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Life
None are rash when they are not seen by anybody.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
To be vain of one’s rank or place, is to show that one is below it.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Class
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
We are usually mistaken in esteeming men too much; rarely in esteeming them too little.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Respect
Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Science
The merit of great men is not understood but by those who are formed to be such themselves.—Genius speaks only to genius.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Genius
I prefer liberty with danger to slavery with security.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Liberty, Danger, Risk, Freedom, Anger
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Fame
Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Affectation
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Adversity, Courage, Difficulty
Almost always the most indigent are the most generous.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Generosity
Those who ought to be most secure against calumny, are generally those who least escape it.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
A well-read fool is the most pestilent of blockheads; his learning is a flail which he knows how to handle, and with which he breaks his neighbor’s shins as well as his own. Keep a fellow of this description at arm’s length, as you value the integrity of your bones.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Conscience warns us as a friend before it punishes as a judge.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Conscience
Conscience admonishes as a friend before punishing us as a judge.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Conscience
How many fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Age
Good humor is the health of the soul; sadness is its poison.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
Topics: Sadness
I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which meets dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one’s self the seeds of the baseness the other is accused of.
—Stanislaw Leszczynski
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