Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
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We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.
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Our pride rather than our virtue criticizes the faults of others We reprove our friends less to correct their faults than to show that weourselves are free of them.
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