"Most men are more willing to indulge in easy vices than to practise laborious virtues."
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"No man, however enslaved to his appetites, or hurried by his passions, can, while he preserves his intellects unimpaired, please himself with promoting the corruption of others. He whose merit has enlarged his influence would surely wish to exert it for the benefit of mankind. Yet such will be the effect of his reputation, while he suffers himself to indulge in any favourite fault, that they who have no hope to reach his excellence will catch at his failings, and his virtues will be cited to justify the copiers of his vices."
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"We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on"
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"Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit."
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"Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes."
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"Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]"
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"Nous sommes tous oblige s, pour rendre la re alite supportable, d'entretenir en nous quelques petites folies. We must all indulge in a few follies if we are to make reality bearable."
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"Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation."
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"If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end."
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"It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it."
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"The sickly cultural pathos which the whole of France indulges in, that fetishism of the cultural heritage."
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