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Caprice in women often infringes upon the rules of decency.

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Caprice, Decency

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When we have run through all forms of government, without partiality to that we were born under, we are at a loss with which to side; they are all a compound of good and evil. It is therefore most reasonable and safe to value that of our own country above all others, and to submit to it.

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Running, Country, Loss

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An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.

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Clouds, Gambling, Envy

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The same amount of pride which makes a man treat haughtily his inferiors, makes him cringe servilely; to those above him.

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Pride, Men, Treats

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He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.

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Writing, Advice, Pedants

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All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.

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Perfect, Secret, Too Much

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To endeavor to forget anyone is a certain way of thinking of nothing else.

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Thinking, Way, Forget

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We never deceive for a good purpose: knavery adds malice to falsehood.

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Knavery, Deceit, Add

"Characters", XI, 1688.

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The State not seldom tolerates a comparatively great evil to keep out millions of lesser ills and inconveniences which otherwise would be inevitable and without remedy.

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Evil, Would Be, States

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To how many girls has a great beauty been of no other use but to make them expect a large fortune!

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Beauty, Girl, Use

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A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

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Men, Intelligence, Doe

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Profane eloquence is transfered from the bar, where Le Maitre, Pucelle, and Fourcroy formerly practised it, and where it has become obsolete, to the Pulpit, where it is out of place.

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Bars, Obsolete, Pulpit

"The Characters", Chapter XVI. 2., 1688.

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A man only goes and confesses his faults to the world when his self will not acknowledge or listen to them. WYNDHAM LEWIS, Tarr Two persons will not be friends long if they are not inclined to pardon each other's little failings.

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Men, Self, Two

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Amongst such as out of cunning hear all and talk little, be sure to talk less; or if you must talk, say little.

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Littles, Conversation, Cunning

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Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable.
[Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.]

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Life, Men, Firsts

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The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.
[Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]

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Jewels, World, Pearls

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One faithful Friend is enough for a man's self, 'tis much to meet with such an one, yet we can't have too many for the sake of others.

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Friends, Men, Self

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Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.

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Powerful, Action, Excitement

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It would be a kind of ferocity to reject indifferently all sorts of praise. One should be glad to have that which comes from good men who praise in sincerity things that are really praiseworthy.

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Men, Good Man, Would Be

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He who has lived a day has lived an age.

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Age, One Day

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We seldom repent of speaking little, very often of speaking too much: a vulgar and trite maxim, which all the world knows and, but which all the world does not practice

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Practice, Doe, World

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Life is short, if we are only said to live when we enjoy ourselves; and if we were merely to count up the hours we spent agreeably, a great number of years would hardly make up a life of a few months.

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Life, Years, Numbers

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Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

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Able, Misfortunes

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The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

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Education, Society, Individual

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I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

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God, Sober, Speak

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Born: August 16, 1645
Died: May 10, 1696
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