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- The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.
- Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor
- It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.
- People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
- There are no events so disastrous that adroit men do not draw some advantage from them, nor any so fortunate that the imprudent cannot turn…
- We label judges with having the meanest motives, and yet we desire that our reputation and fame should depend upon the judgment of men, who…
- Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.
- Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
- When we exaggerate our friends' tenderness towards us, it is often less from gratitude than from a desire to exhibit our own virtue.
- There are two sorts of constancy in love one arises from continually discovering in the loved person new subjects for love, the other arises from…
- We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
- When love becomes labored we welcome an act of infidelity towards ourselves to free us from fidelity.
- There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.
- No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them...
- A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.
- Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.
- When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms. Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom from the Patterns…
- It is more often from pride than from ignorance that we are so obstinately opposed to current opinions; we find the first places taken, and…
- The surest proof of being endowed with noble qualities is to be free from envy.
- It is more often from pride than from defective understanding that people oppose established opinions: they find the best places taken in the good party…
- We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.
- Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully
- In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.
- Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.
- Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.
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