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The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

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There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
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Beauty Directly Inspirational More Soul
Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly.
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Hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.
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They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.
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In private conversation between intimate friends, the wisest men very often talk like the weakest : for indeed the talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
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I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.
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An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.
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It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
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Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
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A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.
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It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
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Honour’s a sacred tie, the law of kings, The noble mind’s distinguishing perfection
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A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
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