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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
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The mind cannot long play the heart's role.
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Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
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It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
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We always get bored with those whom we bore.
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There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
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There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
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In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.
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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.
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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
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Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
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Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
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The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.
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