"The whimsicalness of our own humor is a thousand times more fickle and unaccountable than what we blame so much in fortune."
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"The appearances of goodness and merit often meet with a greater reward from the world than goodness and merit themselves."
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"Virtues lose themselves in self-interest, as rivers in the sea."
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"Virtue would not make such advances if there were not a little vanity to keep it company."
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"Fortune makes our virtues and vices visible, just as light does the objects of sight."
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"Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it."
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"Treachery is more often the effect of weakness than of a formed design."
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"In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us."
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"Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them."
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"However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention."
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"Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy."
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"A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love."
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"A man may be sharper than another, but not than all others."
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"In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with."
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"Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life."
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"It is not always for virtue's sake that women are virtuous."
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"Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body."
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"We are never so generous as when giving advice."
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"It is easier to fall in love when you are out of it than to get out of it when you are in."
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"Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves."
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