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There are very few women in society whose virtue outlasts their beauty.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
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There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
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The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.
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The truest mark of being born with great qualities, is being born without envy.
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The surest way to be deceived is to consider oneself cleverer than others.
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The sort of liveliness which increases with age is not far distant from madness.
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The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
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The pleasure of love is in loving.
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The passions are the only orators which always persuade.
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The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.
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The name and pretense of virtue is as serviceable to self-interest as are real vices.
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The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.
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The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
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The most dangerous folly of old people who were once attractive is to forget that they are not so any longer.
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The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
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The mind is always the patsy of the heart.
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The man whom no one pleases is much more unhappy than the man who pleases no one.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
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The heart is forever making the head its fool.
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The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
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The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
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The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
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The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it.
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The first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second.
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The force we use on ourselves, to prevent ourselves from loving, is often more cruel than the severest treatment at the hands of one loved.
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