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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.

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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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Activity Ambition Energy Greatness Happiness
There are two things at which most men are grieved: when their faults are exposed, and when their virtues are concealed.
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Grief Man Mistake Virtue
When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that’s a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
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Battle Courageous Defeat Failure Hero Himself Lost Man Sick
Flattery succeeds best on minds previously occupied by conceit.
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Imprudent restrictions often force youth farther than enticement would carry them; and careless limitation is frequently worse than no injunction.
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Care Carry Force Limitation Restriction Worst Youth
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
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Life Philosophy Principle Solid Wisdom
Back in the old days, a man could just get sick and die. Now they have to wage a battle. So my Uncle Bert is waging a courageous battle, which I’ve seen, because I go and visit him. And this is the battle: he’s lying in the hospital bed, with a thing in his arm, watching Matlock on the TV.
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Battle Day Death Funny Hospital Man Myself Old Sick
If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.
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Desire Praise Yourself
Violent people usually express their love of a thing by their hatred of its opposite.
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Behavior Hate Love Mental People Violence
We often suffer more from our fears, than from the dangers of our situation.
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Danger Fear Ourselves Philosophy Situation Suffering
I don’t have any ambition.
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Ambition Myself One Liner
Liberty, like health, appears most precious when lost.
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Appearance Health Liberty Lost Precious
Though you may be last to discover your follies, be always first to correct them.
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Correct Discover Improvement Mistake Yourself
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others.
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Commitment Display Excuse Mistake
The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.
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Imperfection Man Ourselves Praise Seek Virtue
It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
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Adversity Better Desire Destroy Necessary Prosperity Ruin

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