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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be... →
Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.
Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things;... →
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride... →
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be... →
Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who... →
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