"Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please."
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"On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones."
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"A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second."
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"Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example."
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"What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving."
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"A small degree of wit, accompanied by good sense, is less tiresome in the long run than a great amount of wit without it."
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"The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune."
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"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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"The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve."
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"It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them."
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"However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else."
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"It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit."
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"The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her."
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"We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions."
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"It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do."
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"It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also bestowed on us pride, to spare us the pain of being aware of our imperfections."
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"The greatest miracle of love is the cure of coquetry."
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"Women know not the whole of their coquetry."
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"We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally."
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"In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer."
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