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

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

Please all who are worth pleasing; offend none

Pleased to some degree by showing a desire to please

Pleased with him, by making them first pleased with themselves

Pleasing in company is the only way of being pleased in yourself

Pleasure and business with equal inattention

Pleasure is necessarily reciprocal

Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon

Pleasures do not commonly last so long as life

Pocket all your knowledge with your watch

Polite, but without the troublesome forms and stiffness

POLITICIANS NEITHER LOVE NOR HATE

Prefer useful to frivolous conversations

Prejudices are our mistresses

Pride remembers it forever

Pride of being the first of the company

Prudent reserve

Public speaking

Put out your time, but to good interest

Quarrel with them when they are grown up, for being spoiled

Quietly cherished error, instead of seeking for truth

Read my eyes out every day, that I may not hang myself

Read with caution and distrust

Real merit of any kind will be discovered

Real friendship is a slow grower

Reason ought to direct the whole, but seldom does

Reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does

Receive them with great civility, but with great incredulity

Reciprocally profess wishes which they seldom form

Recommend (pleasure) to you, like an Epicurean

Recommends selfconversation to all authors

Refuge of people who have neither wit nor invention of their own

Refuse more gracefully than other people could grant

Repeating

Represent, but do not pronounce

Reserve with your friends

Respect without timidity

Respectful without meanness, easy without too much familiarity

Return you the ball 'a la volee'

Rich man never borrows

Richelieu came and shackled the nation

Rochefoucault, who, I am afraid, paints man very exactly

Rochefoucault

Rough corners which mere nature has given to the smoothest

Ruined their own son by what they called loving him

Same coolness and unconcern in any and every company

Scandal: receiver is always thought, as bad as the thief

Scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow

Scarcely any body who is absolutely good for nothing

Scrupled no means to obtain his ends

Secret, without being dark and mysterious

Secrets

See what you see, and to hear what you hear

Seem to like and approve of everything at first

Seeming frankness with a real reserve

Seeming inattention to the person who is speaking to you

Seeming openness is prudent

Seems to have no opinion of his own

Seldom a misfortune to be childless

Selflove draws a thick veil between us and our faults

Sentimentmongers

Sentiments that were never felt, pompously described

Serious without being dull

Settled here for good, as it is called

Shakespeare

She has all the reading that a woman should have

She who conquers only catches a Tartar

She has uncommon, sense and knowledge for a woman

Shepherds and ministers are both men

Silence in love betrays more woe

Singularity is only pardonable in old age

Six, or at most seven hours sleep

Smile, where you cannot strike

Some complaisance and attention to fools is prudent

Some men pass their whole time in doing nothing

Something or other is to be got out of everybody

Something must be said, but that something must be nothing

Sooner forgive an injury than an insult

Sow jealousies among one's enemies

Spare the persons while you lash the crimes

Speaking to himself in the glass

Stampact has proved a most pernicious measure

Stampduty, which our Colonists absolutely refuse to pay

State your difficulties, whenever you have any

Steady assurance, with seeming modesty

Studied and elaborate dress of the ugliest women in the world

Style is the dress of thoughts

Success turns much more upon manner than matter

Sure guide is, he who has often gone the road which you want to

Suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgive

Swearing

Tacitus

Take the hue of the company you are with

Take characters, as they do most things, upon trust

Take, rather than give, the tone of the company you are in

Take nothing for granted, upon the bare authority of the author

Taking up adventitious, proves their want of intrinsic merit

Talent of hating with goodbreeding and loving with prudence

Talk often, but never long

Talk sillily upon a subject of other people's

Talk of natural affection is talking nonsense

Talking of either your own or other people's domestic affairs

Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are

Tell stories very seldom

The longest life is too short for knowledge

The present moments are the only ones we are sure of

The best have something bad, and something little

The worst have something good, and sometimes something great

There are many avenues to every man

They thought I informed, because I pleased them

Thin veil of Modesty drawn before Vanity

Think to atone by zeal for their want of merit and importance

Think yourself less well than you are, in order to be quite so

Thinks himself much worse than he is

Thoroughly, not superficially

Those who remarkably affect any one virtue

Those whom you can make like themselves better

Three passions that often put honesty to most severe trials

Timidity and diffidence

To be heard with success, you must be heard with pleasure

To be pleased one must please

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them

To seem to have forgotten what one remembers

To know people's real sentiments, I trust much more to my eyes

To great caution, you can join seeming frankness and openness

Too like, and too exact a picture of human nature

Trifle only with triflers; and be serious only with the serious

Trifles that concern you are not trifles to me

Trifling parts, with their little jargon

Trite jokes and loud laughter reduce him to a buffoon

Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle

Truth leaves no room for compliments

Unaffected silence upon that subject is the only true medium

Unguarded frankness

Unintelligible to his readers, and sometimes to himself

Unopened, because one title in twenty has been omitted

Unwilling and forced; it will never please

Use palliatives when you contradict

Useful sometimes to see the things which one ought to avoid

Value of moments, when cast up, is immense