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What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several.

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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.

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We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.

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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

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We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

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We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our motives.

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We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

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We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

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We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.

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We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

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We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

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We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

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We seldom praise anyone in good earnest, except such as admire us.

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We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.

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We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

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We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

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We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do.

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We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

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We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

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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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We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves.

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We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.

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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

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We are very far from always knowing our own wishes.

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We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

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We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

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We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

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We are so used to dissembling with others that in time we come to deceive and dissemble with ourselves.

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