"One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world."
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"Moderation is a fear of falling into that envy and contempt which those who grow giddy with their good fortune quite justly draw upon themselves. It is a vain boasting of the greatness of our mind."
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"If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness."
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"What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have arranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste."
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"Men's happiness and misery depends altogether as much upon their own humor as it does upon fortune."
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"There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation."
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"Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do."
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"As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom."
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"The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so."
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"To think to be wise alone is a very great folly."
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"Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty."
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"Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason."
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"Women can less easily surmount their coquetry than their passions."
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"A man does not please long when he has only species of wit."
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"Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity."
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"Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth."
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"The most brilliant fortunes are often not worth the littleness required to gain them."
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"We should wish for few things with eagerness, if we perfectly knew the nature of that which was the object of our desire."
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"The vivacity that augments with years is not far from folly."
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"What often prevents our abandoning ourselves to a single vice is, our having more than one."
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