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That aids and strengthens virtue where it meets her And imitates her actions where she is not: It is not to be sported with.

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Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.
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The great difference is, that the first knows how to pick and cull his thoughts for conversation, by suppressing some, and communicating others; whereas the other lets them all indifferently fly out in words.
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Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
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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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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
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Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.
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Let freedom never perish in your hands.
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady’s attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
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Mankind are more indebted to industry than ingenuity; the gods set up their favors at a price, and industry is the purchaser.
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If men would consider not so much wherein they differ, as wherein they agree, there would be far less of uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
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There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
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The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
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Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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Talking with a friend is nothing else but thinking aloud.
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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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