"Silence is the safest course for any man to adopt who distrust himself."
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"It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it."
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"Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time."
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"Some weak people are so sensible of their weakness as to be able to make a good use of it."
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"He is safe who admits no one to his confidence."
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"That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own."
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"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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"All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones."
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"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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"Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]"
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"Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money"
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"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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"The reason we bitterly hate those who deceive us is because they think they are cleverer than we are."
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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
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"There are good marriages, but there are no delightful ones."
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"Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty."
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"Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples."
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"The clemency of Princes is often but policy to win the affections of the people."
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"We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone."
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"Few people know death, we only endure it, usually from determination, and even from stupidity and custom; and most men only die because they know not how to prevent dying."
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