It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
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Taste may change, but inclination never.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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Gracefulness is to the body what understanding is to the mind.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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He who lives without folly isn’t so wise as he thinks.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
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However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.
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It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
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