Love of justice in the generality of men is only the fear of suffering from injustice.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.
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We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
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There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.
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Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.
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What makes us like new acquaintances is not so much any weariness of our old ones, or the pleasure of change, as disgust at not being sufficiently admired by those who know us too well, and the hope of being more so by those who do not know so much of us.
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