We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Often we exaggerate the goodness of others more for our own virtue in giving praise than for the virtues that we praise thus we invite commendation by seeming to dispense it.
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If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
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The labor of the body relieves us from the fatigues of the mind and it is this which forms the happiness of the poor.
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If we judge love by most of its effects, it resembles rather hatred than affection.
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