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Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.

Women are all so far Machiavellians that they are never either good or bad by halves; their passions are too strong, and their reason too weak, to do anything with moderation.

Lord Chesterfield
Strong, Women, Passion

Almost all men are born with every passion to some extent, but there is hardly a man who has not a dominant passion to which the others are subordinate. Discover this governing passion in every individual; and when you have found the master passion of a man, remember never to trust to him where that passion is concerned.

Lord Chesterfield
Passion, Men, Remember

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

Lord Chesterfield
Passion, Ambition, Pride

You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp itsseat, and rule in its stead.

Lord Chesterfield
Passion, Weakness, Doe
Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Eugenia Stanhope (1827). “Letters Written by the Earl of Chesterfield to His Son”, p.135

There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellows, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy.

Lord Chesterfield
Hate, Ambition, Passion

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

Lord Chesterfield
Passion, Men, Vanity
Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.189, Oxford University Press

In order to judge of the inside of others, study your own; for men in general are very much alike; and though one has one prevailing passion, and another has another, yet their operations are much the same; and whatever engages or disgusts, pleases or offends you, in others, will, mutatis mutandis, engage, disgust, please, or offend others, in you.

Lord Chesterfield
Passion, Men, Order
"Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

Lord Chesterfield
Wise, Wisdom, Passion

A learned parson, rusting in his cell at Oxford or Cambridge, will reason admirably well upon the nature of man; will profoundly analyze the head, the heart, the reason, the will, the passions, the senses, the sentiments, and all those subdivisions of we know not what ; and yet, unfortunately, he knows nothing of man... He views man as he does colours in Sir Isaac Newton's prism, where only the capital ones are seen; but an experienced dyer knows all their various shades and gradations, together with the result of their several mixtures.

Lord Chesterfield
Ignorance, Passion, Learning
"Manners and speech or maxims extracted from Lord Chesterfield's letters to his son". Book by Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

When you have found out the prevailing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.

Lord Chesterfield
Passion, Men, Remember
Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.44, Oxford University Press

Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of which in their turns determine their wills in defiance of their reason.

Lord Chesterfield
Kings, Hero, Passion

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

Lord Chesterfield
Passion, Tragedy, Dignity
Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.249, Oxford University Press

Whatever poets may write, or fools believe, of rural innocence and truth, and of the perfidy of courts, this is most undoubtedly true,--that shepherds and ministers are both men; their natures and passions the same, the modes of them only different.

Lord Chesterfield
Believe, Passion, Writing
Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.80, Oxford University Press

Spirit is now a very fashionable word: to act with Spirit, to speak with Spirit, means only to act rashly, and to talk indiscreetly. An able man shows his Spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid.

Lord Chesterfield
Passion, Mean, Men
Lord Chesterfield (2008). “The Modern Chesterfield”, p.246, Wildside Press LLC

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