"It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others."
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"When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns That Bind You There are two kinds of faithfulness in love: one is based on forever finding new things to love in the loved one; the other is based on our pride in being faithful."
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"The reason that lovers never weary each other is because they are always talking about themselves."
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"We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company."
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"What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride."
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"All men are equally proud. The only difference is that not all take the same methods of showing it."
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"The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves."
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"Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood."
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"The esteem of good men is the reward of our worth, but the reputation of the world in general is the gift of our fate."
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"It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself."
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"Lovers, when they are no longer in love, find it very hard to break up."
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"We frequently do good in order to enable us to do evil later with impunity exemption of punishment."
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"There is no accident so unfortunate but wise men will make some advantage of it, nor any so entirely fortunate but fools may turn it to their own prejudice."
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"In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities."
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"Vices are ingredients of virtues just as poisons are ingredients of remedies. Prudence mixes and tempers them and uses them effectively against life's ills."
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"The most violent passions sometimes leave us at rest, but vanity agitates us constantly."
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"Love, all agreeable as it is, charms more by the fashion in which it displays itself, than by its own true merit."
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"What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are."
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"Men more easily renounce their interests than their tastes."
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"Self-love is more cunning than the most cunning man in the world."
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