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Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.

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Integrity, Hypocrisy, Identity

Nothing is so contagious as example.

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Example, Contagious

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others.

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Conceited, Bored, Egotism

We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

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Life, Experience, Novices

Weak people cannot be sincere.

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People, Weakness, Sincerity

It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall us.

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May, Deals

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

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Details, Irony, Remember

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

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Wise, Art, Self

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

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Destiny, Men, Unhappiness

Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

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Pain, Mind, Poverty

To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

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Greatness, Achieve, Should

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

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Courage, Danger, Certain
"Premier Supplément", 42, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 142-44, 1922.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

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Love, Truth, Fear

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

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Thinking, Self, Deception

Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.

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Satisfaction, Should, One Time

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

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Hero, Sight, Bravery

Some crimes get honor and renown by being committed with more pomp, by a greater number, and in a higher degree of wickedness thanothers. Hence it is that public robberies, plunderings, and sackings have been looked upon as excellencies and noble achievements, and the seizing of whole countries, however unjustly and barbarously, is dignified with the glorious name of gaining conquests.

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Country, Names, Numbers

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

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Relationship, Solitude, Finding Peace

We love much better those who endeavor to imitate us, than those who strive to equal us. For imitation is a sign of esteem, but competition of envy.

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Envy, Competition, Imitation

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it; it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults.

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Pride, Men, Faults

We sometimes condemn the present, by praising the past; and show our contempt of what is now, by our esteem for what is no more.

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Past, Sometimes, Praise

A man often thinks he rules himself, when all the while he is ruled and managed; and while his understanding directs one design, his affections imperceptibly draw him into another.

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Passion, Men, Thinking

There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

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Beauty, Too Much, Brilliant

Most men, like plants, possess hidden qualities which chance discovers.

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Men, Quality, Chance

A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win.

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Wise, Winning, Men

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