"A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]"
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"Fancy sets the value on the gifts of fortune."
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"It is far better to be deceived than undeceived by those whom we tenderly love."
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"For the credit of virtue we must admit that the greatest misfortunes of men are those into which they fall through their crimes."
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"Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three."
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"The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light."
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"Of all the violent passions, the one that becomes a woman best is love."
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"We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy."
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"There are some disguised falsehoods so like truths, that 'twould be to judge ill not to be deceived by them."
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"Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it."
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"Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him."
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"Politeness of mind consists in thinking chaste and refined thoughts."
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"Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor"
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"We are never so ridiculous through what we are as through what we pretend to be."
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"The moderation of men in the most exalted fortunes is a desire to be thought above those things that have raised them so high."
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"In love deceit almost always outstrips distrust."
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"A respectable man may love madly, but not foolishly."
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"The passions of youth are not more dangerous to health than is the lukewarmness of old age."
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"Nothing is more contagious than example, and no man does any exceeding good or exceeding ill but it spawns new deeds of the same kind. The good we imitate through emulation, the ill through the malignity of our nature, which shame keeps locked up, but example sets free."
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"Pride has a greater share than goodness in the reproofs we give other people for their faults; and we chide them not so much to make them mend those faults as to make them believe that we ourselves are without fault."
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