Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
~ Alexander Pope - [Self-knowledge]

There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.''
~ Alexander Pope - [Sex]

By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned; By strangers honored, and by strangers mourned.
~ Alexander Pope - [Strangers]

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
~ Alexander Pope - [Trials]

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
~ Alexander Pope - [Tyranny]

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.
~ Alexander Pope - [Vengeance]

Virtuous and vicious everyone must be; few in extremes, but all in degree.
~ Alexander Pope - [Virtue]

To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
~ Alexander Pope - [Vulgarity]

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.
~ Alexander Pope - [Passion]

Passions are the gales of life.
~ Alexander Pope - [Passion]

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.
~ Alexander Pope - [Passion]

I find myself... hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
~ Alexander Pope - [Politicians and Politics]

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
~ Alexander Pope - [Praise]

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.
~ Alexander Pope - [Praise]

All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.
~ Alexander Pope - [Prejudice]

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
~ Alexander Pope - [Pride]

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.
~ Alexander Pope - [Pride]

Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
~ Alexander Pope - [Progress]

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
~ Alexander Pope - [Reason]

Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; you played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill: walk sober off; before a sprightlier age comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage: leave such to trifle with more grace and ease, whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.
~ Alexander Pope - [Retirement]