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Sometimes we think we dislike...

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

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When the philosophers despise...

When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them.

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The courage of a great many m...

The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and especially a suitabletemperament.

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The heart of man ever finds a...

The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

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Constancy in love is a perpet...

Constancy in love is a perpetual inconstancy which fixes our hearts successively to all the qualities of the person loved--sometimes admiring one and sometimes another above all the rest--so that this constancy roves as far as it can, and is no better than inconstancy, confined within the compass of one person.

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That man, we may be sure, is ...

That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise.

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The most effectual way to be ...

The most effectual way to be deceived is to believe oneself more cunning than one's neighbors.

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Men never desire anything ver...

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

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We do not lack strength so mu...

We do not lack strength so much as the will to use it; and very often our imagining that things are impossible is nothing but an excuse of our own contriving, to reconcile ourselves to our own idleness.

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It is a mighty error to suppo...

It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the rest. Even idleness, as feeble and languishing as it is, sometimes reigns over them; it usurps the throne and sits paramount over all the designs and actions of our lives, and imperceptibly wastes and destroys all our passions and all our virtues.

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Humility is the sure evidence...

Humility is the sure evidence of Christian virtues. Without it, we retain all our faults still, and they are only covered over with pride, which hides them from other men's observation, and sometimes from our own too.

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Fortune makes our virtues and...

Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight.

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A man is sometimes better off...

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

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Self-love is the love of a ma...

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

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No one thinks fortune so blin...

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

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The same strength of characte...

The same strength of character which helps a man resist love, helps to make it more violent and lasting too. People of unsettled minds are always driven about with passions, but never absolutely filled with any.

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Moderation is caused by the f...

Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune.

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Very few people are acquainte...

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

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Those great and glorious acti...

Those great and glorious actions that dazzle our eyes with their luster are represented by statesmen as the result of great wisdomand excellent design; whereas, in truth, they are commonly the effects of the humors and passions.

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We often make use of envenome...

We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

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