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Self-love, as it happens to b...

Self-love, as it happens to be well or ill conducted, constitutes virtue and vice.

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The good or the bad fortune o...

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

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Idleness and constancy fix th...

Idleness and constancy fix the mind to what it finds easy and agreeable. This habit always confines and cramps up our knowledge; and no one has ever taken the trouble to stretch and carry his understanding as far as it could go.

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One honor won is a surety for...

One honor won is a surety for more.

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As uncommon a thing as true l...

As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship.

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Pity is a sense of our own mi...

Pity is a sense of our own misfortunes in those of another man; it is a sort of foresight of the disasters which may befall ourselves. We assist others,, in order that they may assist us on like occasions; so that the services we offer to the unfortunate are in reality so many anticipated kindnesses to ourselves.

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The distempers of the soul ha...

The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

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Our self-love can less bear t...

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

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We should desire very few thi...

We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.

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We often pride ourselves on e...

We often pride ourselves on even the most criminal passions, but envy is a timid and shamefaced passion we never dare to acknowledge.

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Ridicule dishonours more than...

Ridicule dishonours more than dishonour.

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Self-love increases or dimini...

Self-love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them; and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.

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Whatever discoveries we may h...

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

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The reason we do not let our ...

The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

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However evil men may be they ...

However evil men may be they dare not be openly hostile to virtue, and so when they want to attack it they pretend to find it spurious , or impute crimes to it.

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The thing that makes our frie...

The thing that makes our friendships so short and changeable is that the qualities and dispositions of the soul are very hard to know, and those of the understanding and wit very easy.

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Prudence and love are inconsi...

Prudence and love are inconsistent; in proportion as the last increases, the other decreases.

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Our probity is not less at th...

Our probity is not less at the mercy of fortune than our property.

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Truth has scarce done so much...

Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

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In the human heart there is a...

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

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