What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.
Of all our faults, the one we avow most easily is idleness; we persuade ourselves that it is allied to all the peaceable virtues,and as for the others, that it does not destroy them utterly, but only suspends the exercise of their functions.
It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.
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