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There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
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Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
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The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
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Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.
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I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
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You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.
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The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
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The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
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What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself.
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Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
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He, who cannot forgive a trespass of malice to his enemy, has never yet tasted the most sublime enjoyment of love.
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Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.
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