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May you live as long as you are fit to live, but no longer, or, may you rather die before you cease to be fit to live than after!

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
An ignorant man is insignificant and contemptible; nobody cares for his company, and he can just be said to live, and that is all.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your friends; and there is a Spanish proverb which says vry justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are.'

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I always put these pert jackanapeses out of countenance by looking extremely grave when they expect that I should laugh at their pleasantries; and by saying Well, and so?--as if they had not done, and that the sting were still to come. This disconcerts them, as they have no resources in themselves, and have but one set of jokes to live upon.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield