Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.
ANTHONY TROLLOPEMen who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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But mad people never die. That’s a well-known fact. They’ve nothing to trouble them, and they live for ever.
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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
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Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.
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Men who can succeed in deceiving no one else, will succeed at last in deceiving themselves.
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Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.
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What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?
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Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.
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Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
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Above all else, never think you’re not good enough.
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Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
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If any such point out to us our follies, we at once claim those follies as the special evidence of our wisdom.
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Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.
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The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you.
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The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
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What is there that money will not do?
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