We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
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It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
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What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
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The love of justice in most men is only the fear of suffering injustice.
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Men have made a virtue of moderation to limit the ambition of the great, and to console people of mediocrity for their want of fortune and of merit.
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In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us.
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