To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.
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The defects and faults of the mind are like wounds in the body; after all imaginable care has been taken to heal them up, still there will be a scar left behind, and they are in continual danger of breaking the skin and bursting out again.Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
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Jealousy is, in some sort, rational and just it aims at the preservation of a good which belongs, or which we think belongs, to us whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot endure, even in idea, the good of others.
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The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.
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Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.
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We easily forget our faults when they are known only to ourselves.
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