1.
The truth only irritates those it enlightens, but does not convert.
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2.
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
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3.
A just person knows how to secure his own reputation without blemishing another's by exposing his faults.
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4.
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
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5.
We pass our life in deliberation, and we die upon it.
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6.
Men are; more inclined to ask curious questions than to obtain necessary instruction.
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7.
There is no greater punishment than that of being abandoned to one's self.
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8.
Care may acquire wealth, which, when acquired, care must guard and worry about.
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9.
Charity is an eternal debt and without limit.
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