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Most men expose themselves in...

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

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There are few occasions when ...

There are few occasions when we should make a bad bargain by giving up the good on condition that no ill was said of us.

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The greatest fault of a penet...

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

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A fool has not material enoug...

A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]

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Reconciliation with our enemi...

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

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To praise great actions with ...

To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

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Men are often so foolish as t...

Men are often so foolish as to boast and value themselves upon their passions, even those that are most vicious. But envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that no one every ever had the confidence to own it.

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Clemency, which we make a vir...

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three.

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Men more easily renounce thei...

Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes.

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People are more slanderous fr...

People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.

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There is nothing men are so ge...

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

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No men are oftener wrong than ...

No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

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We are all strong enough to be...

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

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Flattery is a kind of bad mone...

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

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Nature seems at each man's bir...

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

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We have no patience with other...

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

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If we have not peace within ou...

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

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No man deserves to be praised ...

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

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Our aversion to lying is commo...

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

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If we resist our passions, it ...

If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

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