Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.
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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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The sure way to be cheated is to think one’s self more cunning than others.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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Some people displease with merit, and others’ very faults and defects are pleasing.
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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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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
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It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.
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If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.
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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
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