Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity.
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Extreme patience of long-sufferance, if it once come to be dissolved, produceth most bitter and excessive revenges.
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Whatever are the benefits of fortune, they yet require a palate fit to relish and taste them.
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The finest lives, in my opinion, are those who rank in the common model, and with the human race, but without miracle, without extravagance.
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Of all the benefits that virtue confers upon us, the contempt of death is one of the greatest.
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If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.
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