Love renders women discreet. [ Barthe ]

Decency renders all things tolerable. [ De Gerando ]

Knowledge renders a crime inexcusable. [ Proverb ]

Science seldom renders men amiable; women, never. [ Beauchene ]

Love renders chaste the most voluptuous pleasures. [ Virey ]

He is the happiest who renders the greatest number happy. [ Desmakis ]

Charity, which renders good for bad, blessings for curses. [ William Shakespeare ]

One fault begets another; one crime renders another necessary. [ Southey ]

Superstition renders a man a fool, and skepticism makes him mad. [ Proverb ]

Jealousy is an awkward homage which inferiority renders to merit. [ Madame de Puisieux ]

It is riot being deceived, but undeceived, that renders us miserable. [ Mme. Sophie Arnould ]

Use, do not abuse: neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. [ Voltaire ]

Solitude either develops the mental powers, or renders men dull and vicious. [ Victor Hugo ]

Adversity, which makes us indulgent to others, renders them severe towards us. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it. [ Rousseau ]

What renders the vanity of others unbearable to us is the wound it inflicts on ours. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Ceremony and great professing renders friendships as much suspected as it does religion. [ Wycherley ]

Humour is properly the exponent of low things; that which first renders them poetical to the mind. [ Carlyle ]

The best government is not that which renders men the happiest, but that which renders the greatest number happy. [ Charles P. Duclos ]

Coquetry is a continual lie, which renders a woman more contemptible and more dangerous than a courtesan who never lies. [ De Varennes ]

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless. [ Boiste ]

What is it that renders friendship between women so lukewarm and of so short duration? It is the interests of love and the jealousy of conquest. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Nature is just to all mankind, and repays them for their industry. She renders them industrious by annexing rewards in proportion to their labor. [ Montesquieu ]

Whatever the benefits of fortune are, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them; it is fruition, and not possession, that renders us happy. [ Montaigne ]

Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men. [ B. R. Haydon ]

The diamond is more valuable than any other stone, and vastly superior to all others in lustre and beauty; as also in hardness, which renders it more durable and lasting. [ Woodward ]

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. [ Cervantes ]

He who indulges his senses in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. [ Scott ]

One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]

The want of interest renders a person negligent; servants are commonly negligent in what concerns their master's interest. Negligence is therefore the fault of persons of all descriptions, but particularly those in low condition. [ G. Crabb ]

By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to appear without. [ Adam Smith ]