We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.
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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.
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It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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We have no patience with other people’s vanity because it is offensive to our own.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.
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Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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