The word virtue is as useful to self-interest as the vices.
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Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
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There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.
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The mind cannot long play the heart's role.
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The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.
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As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
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