"We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible."
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"The truest mark of being born with great qualities is to be born without envy."
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"Humility is the worst form of conceit."
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"It is pointless for a woman to be young unless pretty, or to be pretty unless young."
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"A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon."
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"Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person."
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"Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time."
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"We often pay our debts not because it is only fair that we should, but to make future loans easier."
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"It is easy to be wise on behalf of others than to be so for ourselves."
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"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
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"He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage."
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"Sometimes a fool has talent, but never judgment."
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"Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct."
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"To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune."
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"All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood."
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"It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects."
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"More men are guilty of treason through weakness than any studied design to betray."
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"We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others."
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"What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give."
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"Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth."
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