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Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
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We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.
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The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.
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The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.
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You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
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Action makes more fortune than caution.
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Courage is adversity's lamp.
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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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All grand thoughts come from the heart.
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The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.
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Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
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Patience is the art of hoping.
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If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
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It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.
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18.
Those who can bear all can dare all.
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One can not be just if one is not humane.
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The lazy are always wanting to do something.
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21.
Peace renders nations happier and men weaker.
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22.
Give help rather than advice.
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23.
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
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25.
The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.
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26.
It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish.
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We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
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28.
More are taken in by hope than by cunning.
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29.
Consciousness of our powers augments them.
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30.
The maxims of men reveal their characters.
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31.
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
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32.
We discover in ourselves what others hide from us and we recognize in others what we hide from ourselves.
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The conscience of the dying belies their life.
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Indolence is the sleep of the mind.
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The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.
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Prosperity makes few friends.
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37.
One promises much, to avoid giving little.
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38.
Some of us would be greatly astonished to learn the reasons why others respect us.
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39.
It is no great advantage to possess a quick wit, if it is not correct; the perfection is not speed but uniformity.
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40.
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
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41.
Every thought is new when an author expresses it in a manner peculiar to himself.
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42.
Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies.
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43.
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
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44.
Consciousness of our strength increases it.
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45.
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
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You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.
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All that is unfair, offends us if it's not beneficial for us
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He who knows how to suffer everything can dare everything.
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The mind is the soul's eye, not its source of power. That lies in the heart, in other words, in the passions.
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You must maintain strength of body in order to preserve strength of mind.
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