"The only security is courage."
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"There is merit without rank, but there is no rank without some merit."
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"Those whom the world has delighted to honor have oftener been influenced in their doings by ambition and vanity than by patriotism."
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"Great men should not have great faults."
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"Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer."
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"The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion."
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"The contempt of riches in the philosophers was a concealed desire of revenging on fortune the injustice done to their merit, by despising the good she denied them."
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"Penetration has an air of divination; it pleases our vanity more than any other quality of the mind."
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"If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure."
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"Flattery is false money, which would not be current were it not for our vanity."
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"There are follies as catching as contagious disorders."
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"Nothing is so contagious as example; never was there any considerable good or ill done that does not produce its like. We imitate good actions through emulation, and had ones through a malignity in our nature, which shame conceals, and example sets at liberty."
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"Constancy in love ... is only inconstancy confined to one object."
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"There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one."
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"When the philosophers despised riches, it was because they had a mind to vindicate their own merit, and take revenge upon the injustice of fortune by vilifying those enjoyments which she had not given them."
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"Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt."
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"The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves."
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"As uncommon a thing as true love is, it is yet easier to find than true friendship."
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"The boldest stroke and best act of friendship is not to disclose our own failings to a friend, but to show him his own."
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"When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness."
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