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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
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The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.
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Emotion has taught mankind to reason.
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Lazy people are always looking for something to do.
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Magnanimity owes no account to prudence of its motives.
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Young people suffer less from their faults than from the prudence of the old.
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Those who fear men love the laws.
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It is good to be firm by temperament and pliant by reflection.
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Great men in teaching weak men to reflect have set them on the road to error.
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Neither the gifts nor the blows of fortune equal those of nature.
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We are forced to respect the gifts of nature, which study and fortune cannot give.
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Is it against justice or reason to love ourselves? And why is self-love always a vice?
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It cannot be a vice in men to be sensible of their strength.
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Great men are sometimes so even in small things.
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There does not exist a man sufficiently intelligent never to be tiresome.
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