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Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.

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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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Chastity is oftener owing to diffidence and shame, than to fortitude of reason or virtue.
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Few are more unhappy than those who have great ambition, but little energy to urge it into activity.
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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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With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.
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Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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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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All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.
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Instead of loving your enemies, have no enemies to love.
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In estimating the adversities of life, we would seldom have much reason to complain of the evils we suffer, did we understand the dangers we daily escape.
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I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don’t like to memorize words.
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Some men are tempted to violate secrecy from the uneasiness secrecy gives them, and others, merely to impress you with the extent of their confidence.
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They that are fated to be fools, have one consolation, that they are fated also to be ignorant of it.
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Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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I don’t have any ambition.
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