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• Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.

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  Thinking, Guiding Principles, Self

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• Good results are sometimes owing to a failure of judgment, because the faculty of judgment often hinders us from undertaking many things which would succeed if carried through without thinking.

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  Failure, Thinking, Owing

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• Ignorance makes for weakness and fear; knowledge gives strength and confidence. Nothing surprises an intellect that knows all things with a sense of discrimination.

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  Fear, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• Although we should not love our friends for the good that they do us, it is a sign that they do not love us much if they do not do us good when they have the power to do so.

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  Love, Should, Ifs

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• We need not regard what good a friend has done us, but only his desire to do us good.

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  Friendship, Good Friend, Desire

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• Study and research into truth often only serves to make us see by experience our natural ignorance.

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  Truth, Ignorance, Research

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• We judge matters so superficially that ordinary acts and words, done and spoken with some flair and some knowledge of worldly matters, often succeed better than the greatest cleverness.

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  Judging, Ordinary, Done

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• Honest and sincere acts mislead the wicked and cause them to lose their path to their own goals, because mean-spirited people usually believe that people never act without deceit.

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  Honesty, Lying, Believe

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• Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently ungrateful for favors that they do not wish to acknowledge.

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  People, Ungrateful, Wish

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• There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their pursuit of pleasures and diversions, without injuring the honor and respect we owe to them.

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  Life, Respect, Honor

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• Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose the advantage that comes with the exchange of favors.

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  Love Is, Self, People

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• Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.

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  Love, Powerful, Self

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• It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions.

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  Vanity, Grace, Principles

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• It is such a great fault to talk too much that, in business and conversation, if what is good is also brief, it is doubly good, and one gains by brevity what one often loses by an excess of words.

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  Business, Excess, Too Much

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• The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.

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  Laughter, Laughing, Lessons

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• Wealth does not teach us to transcend the desire for wealth. The possession of many goods does not bring the repose of not desiring them.

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  Desire, Doe, Wealth

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• This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit.

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  Spirit, Fitting, Aids

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• The conversation of those who like to lord it over us is very disagreeable. But we should always be ready to graciously acknowledge the truth, no matter in what guise it comes to us.

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  Truth, Matter, Lord

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• We nearly always make ourselves masters of those whom we know well, because he who is thoroughly understood is in some sense subject to those who understand him.

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  Understanding, Masters, Wells

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• All the great amusements are dangerous for the Christian life.

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  Christian, Amusement, Danger

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• Love is always master everywhere. It shapes the soul, the heart, and the mind wherever it exists. What matters is not the amount of love, but simply its existence in the mind and heart where it resides. And it truly appears that love is to the soul of the lover as the soul itself is to the body which it animates.

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  Heart, Love Is, What Matters

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• There is as much wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are not reluctant to consider the feelings of other people; and to know how to submit to the wise guidance of others is a kind of wisdom in itself.

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  Wise, People, Giving

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• There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.

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  Love, Self, Charity

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• Even the best-natured people, if uninstructed, are always blind and uncertain. We must take pains to instruct ourselves so that ignorance makes us neither too timid nor too bold.

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  Pain, Ignorance, People

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• Everyone is so caught up in his own passions and interests that he always wants to talk about them without getting involved in the passions and interests of those to whom he speaks, although his listeners have the same need for others to listen to and help them.

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  Passion, Listening, Needs

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