"When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured."
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"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves."
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"None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness of will."
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"Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind."
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"We cannot possibly imagine the variety of contradictions in every heart."
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"How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life."
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"If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere."
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"Flattery is a counterfeit money which, but for vanity, would have no circulation."
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"The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself."
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"Humility is often merely feigned submissiveness assumed in order to subject others, an artifice of pride which stoops to conquer, and although pride has a thousand ways of transforming itself it is never so well disguised and able to take people in as when masquerading as humility."
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"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acpuire it."
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"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."
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"True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only."
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"Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body."
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"Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary by sense."
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"Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests."
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"When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate."
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"The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others."
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"What is perfectly true is perfectly witty."
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"It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills."
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