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Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

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It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

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It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

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We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

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In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

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Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.

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Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt.

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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

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A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

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It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

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The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

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We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

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In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

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There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

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However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

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Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

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In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

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Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you know, yet can't quite name.

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We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

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Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

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