"We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason."
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"Sometimes there are accidents in our lives the skillful extrication from which demands a little folly."
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"It is not expedient or wise to examine our friends too closely; few persons are raised in our esteem by a close examination."
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"Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love."
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"A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself."
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"The most sure method of subjecting yourself to be deceived is to consider yourself more cunning than others."
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"True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by."
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"We are not fond of praising, and never praise any one except from interested motives. Praise is a clever, concealed, and delicate flattery, which gratifies in different ways the giver and the receiver. The one takes it as a recompense of his merit, and the other bestows it to display his equity and discernment."
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"Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise."
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"The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established."
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"In love, the quickest is always the best cure."
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"Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means."
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"There are some people upon whom their very faults and failings sit gracefully; and there are others whose very excellencies and accomplishments do not become them."
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"To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them."
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"It is often hard to determine whether a clear, open, and honorable proceeding is the result of goodness or of cunning."
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"Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt"
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"Hope and fear are inseparable. There is no hope without fear, nor any fear without hope."
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"Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed."
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"Hope, deceitful as it is, carries us through life agreeably enough."
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"Few know how to be old."
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