The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.
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In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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One forgives to the degree that one loves.
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The only thing that should surprise us is that there are still some things that can surprise us.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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