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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.
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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
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It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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