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People are often vain of thei...

People are often vain of their passions, even of the worst, but envy is a passion so timid and shame-faced that no one ever dare avow her.

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The largest ambition has the ...

The largest ambition has the least appearance of ambition when it meets with an absolute impossibility in compassing its object.

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The hate of favourites is onl...

The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world.

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We are deceived if we think t...

We are deceived if we think that mind and judgment are two different matters: judgment is but the extent of the light of the mind. This light penetrates to the bottom of matters; it remarks all that can be remarked, and perceives what appears imperceptible. Therefore we must agree that it is the extent of the light in the mind that produces all the effects which we attribute to judgment.

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The evil that we do does not ...

The evil that we do does not attract to us so much persecution and hatred as our good qualities.

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Constancy in love is of two s...

Constancy in love is of two sorts: One is the effect of new excellencies that are always presenting themselves afresh, and attractour affections continually; the other is only from a point of honor, and a taking of pride not to change.

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The whimsicalness of our own ...

The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune.

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The passions do very often gi...

The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

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He that fancies such a suffic...

He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.

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The appearances of goodness a...

The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves.

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We often see malefactors, whe...

We often see malefactors, when they are led to execution, put on resolution and a contempt of death which, in truth, is nothing else but fearing to look it in the face--so that this pretended bravery may very truly be said to do the same good office to their mind that the blindfold does to their eyes.

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Virtues lose themselves in se...

Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea.

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It is oftener by the estimati...

It is oftener by the estimation of our own feelings that we exaggerate the good qualities of others than by their merit, and when we praise them we wish to attract their praise.

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Affected simplicity is a subt...

Affected simplicity is a subtle imposture.

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Criticism sometimes is really...

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

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Praise is a more ingenious, c...

Praise is a more ingenious, concealed, and subtle kind of flattery, that satisfies both the giver and the receiver, though by verydifferent ways. The one accepts it as a reward due to his merit; the other gives it that he may be looked upon as a just and discerning person.

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There is a sort of love whose...

There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

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Nothing ought in reason to mo...

Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another.

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Men frequently do good only t...

Men frequently do good only to give themselves opportunity of doing ill with impunity.

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What renders us so changeable...

What renders us so changeable in our friendship is, that it is difficult to know the qualities of the soul, but easy to know those of the mind.

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