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

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

19 December 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“Every woman is infallibly to be gained by every sort of flattery, and every man by one sort or other.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

16 March 1752
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

19 November 1745
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“Patience, to hear frivolous, impertinent, and unreasonable applications: with address enough to refuse, without offending; or, by your manner of granting, to double the obligation: dexterity enough to conceal a truth, without telling a lie: sagacity enough to read other people’s countenances: and serenity enough not to let them discover anything by yours; a seeming frankness, with a real reserve. These are the rudiments of a politician; the world must be your grammar.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

15 January 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a modest assertion of one’s own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people’s, preserve dignity.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

10 August 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

“In short, let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the informations of others.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

16 March 1759
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)