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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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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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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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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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Even the most disinterested l...

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

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Moderation is represented as ...

Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner condition in their lesser merit and fortune.

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Love is one and the same in t...

Love is one and the same in the original; but there are a thousand different copies of it.

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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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