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"Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valour men hold in such high esteem."
"The less you trust others, the less you will be deceived."
"The trust that we put in ourselves makes us feel trust in others."
"Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everthing which is beyond their range."
"It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad."
"A true friend is the most precious of all possessions and the one we take the least thought about acquiring."
"We should often blush at our noblest deeds if the world were to see all their underlying motives."
"There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words."
"A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right."
"If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship."
"We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves."
"A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit."
"The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age."
"A good woman is a hidden treasure; who discovers her will do well not to boast about it."
"Death and the sun are not to be looked at steadily."
"Civility is a desire to receive civilities, and to be accounted well-bred."
"Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors."
"We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them."
"Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her."
"No fools are so difficult to manage as those with some brains."