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- It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.
- Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that…
- The height of ability in the least able consists in knowing how to submit to the good leadership of others.
- The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals.
- Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.
- Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.
- Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.
- We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent…
- None deserve praise for being good who have not the spirit to be bad: goodness, for the most part, is nothing but indolence or weakness…
- It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.
- The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
- There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
- Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
- In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.
- There are some good marriages, but practically no delightful ones.
- 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.
- Most people judge men by their success or their good fortune.
- 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…
- Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.
- Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always…
- To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
- We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.
- Truth does less good in the world than its appearances do harm.
- Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm.
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