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The desire which urges us to ...

The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

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Few are sufficiently wise to ...

Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

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Praise is flattery, artful, h...

Praise is flattery, artful, hidden, delicate, which gratifies differently him who praises and him who is praised. The one takes it as the reward of merit, the other bestows it to show his impartiality and knowledge.

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A man would rather say evil o...

A man would rather say evil of himself than say nothing.

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We often select envenomed pra...

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

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When great men permit themsel...

When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained by ambition, and not by their mind; so that PLUS a great vanity, heroes are made like other men.

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We have not enough strength t...

We have not enough strength to follow all our reason.

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One kind of flirtation is to ...

One kind of flirtation is to boast we never flirt.

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Those who are condemned to de...

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that one may say that this constancy and contempt are to their mind what the bandage is to their eyes.

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The daily employment of cunni...

The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another.

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Our distrust of another justi...

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

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There is real love just as th...

There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

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Everyone blames his memory, n...

Everyone blames his memory, no one blames his judgment.

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Jealousy is in a manner just ...

Jealousy is in a manner just and reasonable, as it tends to preserve a good which belongs, or which we believe belongs to us, on the other hand envy is a fury which cannot endure the happiness of others.

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One is never as happy or as u...

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

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We should scarcely desire thi...

We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

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It is worth nothing to be you...

It is worth nothing to be young without being beautiful, nor to be beautiful without being young.

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Confidence in conversation ha...

Confidence in conversation has a greater share than wit.

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The shame that arises from pr...

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

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The reason we bitterly hate t...

The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are.

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