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Taking things not as they ought to be, but as they are, I fear it must be allowed that Macchiavelli will always have more disciples than Jesus.

Charles Caleb Colton

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He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
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Adversity Himself Prosperity
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
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Adversity Photograph Reverse Success World
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight.
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Female Forgiveness Liberty
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.
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Afford Man Poor
A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.
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Attainment Human Power Responsibility
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
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Allow Error Flirt Freedom Ourselves Perfection
He that is gone so far as to cut the claws of the lion, will not feel himself quite secure, until he has also drawn his teeth.
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Claw Far Feelings Himself Quite Secure
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Himself Knowledge Reading Time Writing
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
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Friendship Health Known Lost Sound True
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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Action Loud Threat Weakness
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
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Establishment Principle Test Value
Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
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Kill Ourselves Passion Strong Submission
Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.
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Bundle Contradiction Man Paradox
I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower: she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it.
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Books Flower Injury Observation Steal
To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.
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As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
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Attack Body Mindset Privilege Wealth

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