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We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
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We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
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We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
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We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
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We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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We always get bored with those whom we bore.
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We always like those who admire us we do not always like those whom we admire.
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We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.
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We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
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Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.
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Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company.
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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
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To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.
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To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.
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To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established.
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To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.
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To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.
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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
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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 perfected.
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Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
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Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
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There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.
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There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.
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There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
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There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
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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; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
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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 which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
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There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.
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