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Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield [1694-1773] British

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Statesman, British statesman

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield KG PC was a British statesman, man of letters, and wit. He was born in London to Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield, and Lady Elizabeth Savile, and known as Lord Stanhope until the death of his father, in 1726.

Learning, Business, Fear, Health, Knowledge, Age, Fitness, Good, Humor, Imagination, Men, Nature, Patience, Peace, Sad, Time, Travel, Wisdom, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no laziness, no procrastination: never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.	Time	101
Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.		102
Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.		103
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.	Good	104
Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.	Men, Women	105
It is always right to detect a fraud, and to perceive a folly; but it is very often wrong to expose either. A man of business should always have his eyes open, but must often seem to have them shut.	Business	106
Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.	Health, Humor, Sad	107
Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.	Fitness, Health	108
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.		109
Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.		110
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.	Nature	111
If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.		112
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.		113
A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.		114
Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.	Business, Patience	115
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.		116
Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.	Learning	117
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.		118
Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.		119
Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.		120
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.	Age, Fear	121
Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.		122
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.	Knowledge	123
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.	Knowledge, Learning	124
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.		125
I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.		126
Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.		201
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.		202
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.	Wisdom	203
The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.	Peace	204
Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment.		205
I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.		206
The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.		207
Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.		208
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.	Fear	209
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.		210
Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.		211
A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oak, twine himself round some man of great power and interest.		212
Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.		213
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked.	Learning	214
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.		215
You must look into people as well as at them.		216
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.		217
The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it.	Travel	218
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.		219
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.		220
Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.		221
I am very sure that any man of common understanding may, by culture, care, attention, and labor, make himself what- ever he pleases, except a great poet.		222
If you are not in fashion, you are nobody.		223
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one.	Learning	224
I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.		225
Swift speedy time, feathered with flying hours, Dissolves the beauty of the fairest brow.		226
In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.		301
The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.		302
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.		303
Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas - that's what my grandma taught me.		304
I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.		305
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.		306
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.		307
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.		308
In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.		309
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.	Imagination	310
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.		311
The difference between a man of sense and a fop is that the fop values himself upon his dress; and the man of sense laughs at it, at the same time he knows he must not neglect it.		312
Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.		313
When a person is in fashion, all they do is right.		314
Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends.		315
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.		316
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.		317
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.		318
In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.		319
A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.		320
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.		321
Let them show me a cottage where there are not the same vices of which they accuse the courts.		322
The more one works, the more willing one is to work.		323
Take the tone of the company you are in.		324
To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.		325
Character must be kept bright as well as clean.		326

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