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- The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
- The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.....
- 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…
- It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have…
- People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.
- Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.
- Ideas often flash across our minds more complete than we could make them after much labor.
- We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.
- Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.
- Renewed friendships require more care than those that have never been broken.
- We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
- Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much influence…
- Weakness is more opposed to virtue than is vice.
- If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.
- The art of putting into play mediocre qualities often begets more reputation than is achieved by true merit.
- One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun.
- Envy is more irreconcilable than hatred.
- In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
- The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.
- In the intercourse of life, we please more by our faults than by our good qualities.
- 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…
- There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.
- In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.
- There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
- Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
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