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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

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A great cause of evil in the world is that men seldom think themselves criminal if they offer the same injustice to others that has been successfully practiced on themselves.
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The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
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Most men will go farther to give advice than to follow their own opinion.
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Many frequently change their principles, but seldom their practices.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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I don’t know the difference between a hippie and a hipster but, it’s fun to watch either one of them get beat up.
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The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
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Though we may not desire to detect fraud, we must not, on that account, endeavor to be insensible of it, for, as cunning is a crime, so is duplicity a fault, and if men dread knaves, they also despise fools.
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There are two indiscretions that generally distinguish fools: a readiness to report whatever they hear, and a practice of communicating with secrecy what is commonly understood.
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Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied.
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Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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The most frequent cause of regret for what we have done is because its effects interfere with what we would do.
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A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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I got my computer. The great thing about the computer is that you only need enough money to buy a computer and some food, and you’re all right. I don’t have to go to premières.
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Hypocrisy is the outward acknowledgment of inward shame.
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