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Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

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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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Only the contemptible fear contempt.

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One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

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One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

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Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

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Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.

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Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

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Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

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Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

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Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation.

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Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

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Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

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No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

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No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.

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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

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Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.

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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

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Minds of moderate caliber ordinarily condemn everything which is beyond their range.

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Moderation is the feebleness and sloth of the soul, whereas ambition is the warmth and activity of it.

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Men often pass from love to ambition, but they seldom come back again from ambition to love.

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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

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Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

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Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

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Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

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Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

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Jealousy feeds upon suspicion, and it turns into fury or it ends as soon as we pass from suspicion to certainty.

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Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

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