There is little advantage in pleasing ourselves when we please no one else, for our great self-love is often chastised by the scorn of others.
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Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do us, it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good when they have the power to do so.
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It is vain and useless to survey everything that goes on in the world if our study does not help us mend our ways.
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The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.
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There is a certain manner of self-absorption in speaking that always renders the speaker disagreeable. For it is as great a folly to listen only to ourselves while we are carrying on a conversation with others as it is to talk to ourselves while we are alone.
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There is no one who cannot derive great help and great benefit from learning but there are also only a few people who do not receive a great harm from the light and knowledge they have received by learning, unless they use their knowledge in a manner both fit and natural for them.
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